Word: outlandishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less rhetorically, the disbanding H.G.s talked over old times in pubs and clubs: the early days when they drilled with broomsticks, blunderbusses, even pikes and halberds; the later days of spit-&-polish parades, beach and battle maneuvers; the outlandish lessons in stabbing, stunning, strangling; the long, nodding nights of standing guard...
Seigle, Bert Schwartz, and Henry Leff were constantly appearing in the spot-light throughout the evening. The three comedians had everybody's ribs aching when they appeared in outlandish Army costumes and sang several ribald verses under the title of "We're the Misfits of the Battery...
William Jennings Bryan Jr., 54-year-old son of the Great Commoner, was busying himself with bird feathers in Los Angeles. Members of the armed forces in the South Pacific have been sending samples of outlandish plumage back to their girls, unaware that an old wildlife protection measure forbids the importation of undomesticated plumes. The barnyard kind are all right. As Port Collector of Customs, Bryan so far has faithfully snatched from the mails an even hundred wild plumes...
...opinion the type of soldier (a very tiny proportion of the Army) who drifted in the Los Angeles terror mobs suffers from an inferiority complex. Regimented, and in his drab same uniform, he resents the attention the zooter is paid when garbed in his nonmilitary, free-choice, albeit outlandish, getup. . . . This type of soldier has a subconscious bitterness towards all civilians, fostered by labor strikes which are played up by the press, and against capital which they imagine is making millions while they, poor souls, are the "goats...
...second generation. Their fathers and mothers were still Mexicans at heart. They themselves were Americans - resented and looked down on by other Americans. Jobless, misunderstood in their own homes and unwelcome outside them, they had fallen into the companionship of misery. They dressed alike, in the most exaggerated and outlandish costume they could afford: knee-length coats, peg-top trousers, yard-long watch chains, "ducktail" haircuts...