Word: tyroleans
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...this vacation summer, nearly all the scars of war and memory seem to have faded. Occasionally a Frenchman will take malicious delight in giving a German the wrong directions, or a Dutchman will leave a café when it fills up with tourists in Lederhosen and Tyrolean hats. In Yugoslavia the Germans are welcome, if only because they assist Yugoslavia's acutely short consumer-goods market by selling their belongings as they go along. Observed an elderly Serb in Belgrade: "Germans can cross the border with a normal amount of personal belongings, spend a month here and return without...
...doctors' dismay, she swilled slivovitz, puffed on her Tyrolean pipe and declared that she had never felt better. But last week her condition worsened, and the tribal regency council insisted on moving her to the tent in the town square. "A gypsy queen," they said, "must die in her own tent on a mat of straw...
...dinner ended, Russell lit his cigar, Beer donned his tyrolean, and the party walked to the Littauer lecture room...
...quickly became a familiar figure on campus-a small, slight man with precise, courtly manners who was almost always smoking a pipe and wearing a Tyrolean hat. Students soon got used to meeting him out for a solitary walk as late as 2 a.m., or having him show up unannounced to watch an R.O.T.C. drill or a track meet. By last week, as he completed his four-month stay as writer-in-residence, famed Novelist William Faulkner seemed as much a fixture at the University of Virginia as the maples that line the campus...
Holden "hangs up; bounds from his chair, grabs a sharp Tyrolean felt, 'I'll be over in dubbing.' " What hogwash ! Do you think the majority of your subscribers care for this? Please, no more silly blurbs about movie actors...