Word: tyrolean
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...restaurants have standardized décor, which, despite the chain's name, is ersatz Tyrolean rather than Viennese. Each unit combines such decorations as gingham curtains, fake wooden beams, simulated carriage lamps, leatherette settees and plastic flowers. The menu has remained basically fowl, emphasizing chicken in several forms, with a few excursions into wurst and schnitzel. The birds are heavily laced with salt and paprika, which tends to give customers a powerful thirst. Jahn's cash registers thus tinkle along with sales of wine and beer...
...happy days were soon gone. At eleven, Mary left her gentle Tyrolean guardians to live with Pound in Rapallo. As World War II approached, he became more and more infatuated with Mussolini. In 1939, alarmed by Franklin Roosevelt's opposition to the Axis powers, he went to Washington to "talk some sense into the President." Roosevelt refused to see him. When the U.S. entered the war, Pound delivered a series of rambling and vaguely anti-American diatribes on Radio Roma. According to Mary, he did not really intend to betray his country but to persuade it with right reason...
...civilization as decadent and evil, LeRoi Jones cannot quite flush it from his system. It is as much a part of this 36-year-old black writer as having been the son of a Newark, N.J., postal worker, a graduate of Howard University, an East Village intellectual with a Tyrolean hat and a white wife, and a gifted poet-playwright who was cheered until white liberals decided that white guilt was a form of masochism...
...most tumultuous reception that he has been given since he won the 1968 nomination in Miami. He was among his own people, 14,000 Jaycees and wives-the Kansans in white cowboy hats, the Indianians in referees' jackets with little whistles around their necks, the Iowans in yellow Tyrolean hats. After Hail to the Chief, Nixon waved his arms through a roaring seven-minute ovation...
...ballads of troubadours who wandered from manor house to manor house. E.S. captured the spirit of it; his saints and sinners, knights and ladies tiptoe through dainty Alpine primroses to dally on wattle fences. At times he was downright satirical. His Samson is a knave in a tunic and Tyrolean hat, his Delilah a Hausfrau who has slipped away for an afternoon assignation. As for St. Sebastian, E.S. portrays him peppered with arrows by a merry lot that looks for all the world like Robin Hood...