Word: rococo
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...Ochlocracy is but the inchoate rococo of mob rule, bred on febrile emotions and unrestraint," said Wellesley-educated Mme. Chiang Kai-shek to Canada's Parliament. She also spoke of Germany's "immane dictatorship...
...evening, Tin Pan Alley tunes, thumped and wheezed from a piano and an accordion, split the African darkness. The racket came from a rococo Moorish villa which soldiers in the area call "Souk*-el-Spaatz." But the concerts are only occasional. Most of the time Souk-el-Spaatz is a silent hive of conspiring and conferring men. It is the headquarters of the air war being waged by the Allies in Tunisia...
...Cinemansion of its day. Then he bought a Hollywood cornfield and built Grauman's Egyptian, a bewilderingly garish "architectural crazy house." So successful were its showings that in the first few years it ran only eight pictures. In 1927 came Grauman's Chinese, his masterpiece in Hollywood rococo...
...John Bunyan. Around Shepheard's rococo hotel last week the name of Montgomery was better known. To the desert headquarters of the busy little General poured fan mail from around the world. His two most prized: one from an Egyptian girl who thanked him "for saving Egypt"; one from an Atlanta Sunday school teacher, signed by all her pupils, who "pray for you every night...
...Manhattan. Unknown in the U.S., he went to the British Isles in 1900, knocked out the British heavyweight and middleweight champs, came home in 1902 with a mighty reputation, a small fortune, 18 trunks, 72 sets of red-and-blue silk underwear, a top hat, frock coat, and a rococo vocabulary. He won the light-heavyweight championship from Bob Fitzsimmons, who was 44 at the time, and hit him only once in 13 rounds. O'Brien batted 21-year-old Middleweight Stanley Ketchel around for eight rounds in 1909, when O'Brien was 31, and was then knocked...