turn-of-the-century

• “For over two years, you've tricked grown women into dressing like turn-of-the-century toddlers.”

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• “An antique plate or two, a turn-of-the-century teacup, a slender white deer.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Memory Palace

• “Anyone who hasn't recovered from the public-school lie about turn-of-the-century robber barons extorting monopoly profits from the hapless public should open their eyes to the facts.”

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• “Anchored by an Oscar winning tour-de-force performance from Daniel Day-Lewis as turn-of-the-century oilman Daniel Plainview, the film is a disturbing and darkly funny portrait of a man who slowly and completely loses his humanity.”

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• “This, not simultaneously blowing up airliners or destroying skyscrapers, was the mode of jihad envisioned by Abd al-Aziz al-Muqrin, the late leader of the jihad in Saudi Arabia and the author of the appropriately named turn-of-the-century al-Qaeda combat manual "The War Against Cities.”

  The Washington Post: Al-Qaeda's new strategy: Less apocalypse, more street fighting

• “The book focuses on the murder trial of radical labor leader William D. ( "Big Bill") Haywood, a b ê te noire of the turn-of-the-century American bourgeoisie.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Terror in America From Another Era

• “The turn-of-the-century designs are spot on and very well thought out.”

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• “The Pisco Sour, the spirit's lemonade-like cocktail ambassador, was created by Duncan Nicol at the Bank Exchange, a turn-of-the-century bar located where the Transamerica building now stands.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Punch it Up With Pisco

• “The concept of the bachelor girl (or girl bachelor, woman bachelor, in common vernacular of the day) was an extension of the New Woman, both of which equally frightened traditionalists and gender divisions at the turn-of-the-century.”

  The Bachelor Girl | Edwardian Promenade

• “Back in 1964, a social studies teacher named Henry Littlefield stumbled onto a way to teach the turn-of-the-century Populist movement -- particularly the argument over whether the US should use silver as well as gold as the basis for its dollars.”

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