Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the promoters of the tote call it "the acme of simplicity," most Englishmen have not yet quite got the hang of this outlandish French machine, and last week King George approached his first tote with frank diffidence...
...admired the women's dress: short coat, kilt, leggings, with a gap between coat and kilt. Says he: "I could not fail to notice how much character it gives a woman's face to display her navel." From time to time in his travels Maugham met an outlandish character, was often made confidant of an outlandish story. In the teak forests of Siam he met a Frenchman, a gross fellow, who boasted of his recent prowess in venery, then seeing a copy of Verlaine's poems Maugham was carrying, seized it and read a favorite...
...wild familiar Irish tune was in the air. It shrilled and banged from the oriental instruments of an outlandish procession. First on a white charger rode Pandit Motilal Nehru, President of the Indian National Congress, followed by 20 elephants magnificently caparisoned. Next came famed Mahatma Gandhi, a wizened, self-starved little saint, wearing as his only garment a skimpy loin cloth?indisputably the most adored and potent man in India...