Word: newfangledness
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But this week the Sixth (60 officers, 1,132 men) showed what a newfangled horse outfit could do in maneuvers in Louisiana; and the lean troopers of the Fourth, now about three-fourths equipped, were doing the same thing in Minnesota. Still to be brought up to strength are eleven...
As a spectacle, American Jubilee lacks the originality of an Aquacade, the excitement of a Railroads on Parade; it is simply an old-fashioned patriotic pageant in newfangled clothes. Many of the spectacles are too big to form effective patterns; much of the music is spoiled by being too loud...
Ladies in Retirement is one of those hard-hitting, old-fashioned melodramas which somehow make the newfangled ones look sick. It is very English (even the daffy sisters remain outdoor girls to the last), but it makes a genteel Victorian parlor seem more sinister than any number of opium dens...
Too set in her ways to have any truck with newfangled sandbags and gum-papered windows, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 91, eldest living daughter of Queen Victoria, stuck to her 98-room Kensington Palace apartment in air-vulnerable London. Once known as the "Royal Rebel" for marrying against her...
Around whiskey bottles, wherever duck shooters gathered at dusk last week† shop talk was the same. Oldsters held forth about the good old days when there were flights of 150,000,000 ducks instead of 65,000,000, when the season was 3½ months long instead of 45...