Word: outlandishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the plot of A Song* is serving only as a link between jam sessions, it is useful and quietly inoffensive. When it brims over into outlandish muggajuggery about gangsters, a torch singer (Virginia Mayo) and a crew of antiquated musicologists, the yarn gets in the way of the hot licks. The plottiness dooms Kaye to the role of master of ceremonies. He handles his interludes adroitly, but some are overlong. And a hep cat can't wait...
...Rotarians and their families descended on Rio de Janeiro last week for the 39th International Convention, Rio's cariocas braced themselves for the worst. They had seen U.S. conventioneers in the movies-Shriners in outlandish costumes and rowdy, boisterous Legionnaires. Shopkeepers hopefully put "Welcome, Rotary" signs in their windows, fearfully wondered if they should board them...
...Study of History (TIME, March 17, 1947) well know, on the Toynbee time-&-space scale the Dark Ages are a mere cat nap and the British Empire a flash in the pan. In these 13 essays, mostly written in the past two years, Toynbee again underlines "the lone and outlandish music of ... parochial history" and speaks of the nations of this world as "subordinate and ephemeral political phenomena...
Avenue tailor. Most of all he likes to wear outlandish hats. His current favorite: a Swiss yodeler's hat. Says Jimmy: "It keeps people talking." Unlike most of today's early-to-bed pros, in the evenings Demaret usually heads for the nearest night club-to hobnob with a bandleader and sing a song with the band. Like golf's great showman of the 1920s, Walter Hagen, he never lets golf interfere with...
...Hollywood store, to the enthusiastic squeals of screen queens and producers' wives. In the first week, the new salon grossed $49,000, much more than Sophie had expected. Hedy Lamarr ordered seven Sophie numbers. Darryl Zanuck told her confidentially: "Our stars simply refuse to wear those outlandish new things." Hollywood had one complaint: Sophie's prices were "too cheap...