Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, continued his critical observations from aboard the Filipino- financed Bustamente (TIME, July 26, et seq.). Slowly the little steamer pushed through hundreds of emerald islets in a turquoise sea beneath azure heavens-on, on to Cuyo Island, veritable Eden in the Sulu Sea. Col. Thompson, pleased, ambled beneath outlandish cocoanut palms, low luscious mangoes. No phones, newspapers, railroads, trolleys or automobiles marred this hot perfection. Ah, to be a barefoot native! . . . But business pressed. Mr. Thompson reluctantly doffed his white helmet to the glistening coral beach, proceeded to the Island of Palawan where a launch took...
Boats of another sort-needle-sharp bodies with eight yellow legs apiece-measured speed, three of the outlandish creatures appearing on a river in Connecticut, two on a lake in New Jersey...
...Thrasymachus, Mr. Joad deals with morals after the fashion of one salvaging a sunken ship. Only yardarms of convention rise above the water, but when Mr. Joad has raised the hull he exhibits how absurdly the masts are set in the vessel's keel, how outlandish is the gear and rigging fashioned haphazard by ancient social navigators. He is very scornful indeed of "that part of human nature which expresses itself in what is called morality," but vitiates his discussion by the employment of flippant paradox, unrepresentative facts and overstrained, somewhat splenetic deductions. For example, this very affecting statement...
...customary relation to actual facts of attendance and more to the monitor's circle of acquaintance. Residences are juggled curiously; individuals who are commonly supposed to live in New York or perhaps Washington--and, in dead, spend their vacations there, succeed in establishing at University Hall temporary residences in outlandish places farther from Cambridge, and set out at an early date in order to arrive in time for the holiday...
...preacher from Georgia in a bungalow on wheels drowsily draws on his outlandish costume-alpaca coat, shabby policeman's trousers and an opera hat- and hopes that the new day may bring him an audience for his weird sermon proving that Negroes are not human beings. The barker for a tent show called The She-Devil clears his throat...