Word: craze
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Beck v. Versailles. Vastly different was the impact on the League of Nations last week of that stern, ramrod-backed bean pole in human form, Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck. Only when the craze for yo-yo tops struck Warsaw two years ago was Colonel Beck seen really to unbend, pumping his yo-yo up & down on its string with pleased dexterity. In the past year the Colonel has been on dangerous ground and he trod it firmly last week...
...butlers have long been butts of humor. Depression or no Depression. Says Hawkins: "The hunger marchers are meeting in the grand ballroom, sir." It is the authors' theory that the nudist craze is simply the result of economic law. The pair on the jacket of their work are clad in barrels with shoulder straps. The wife coyly holds a small nail keg while her surprised husband asks: "Why didn't you tell me, dear...
Most spectacular news in the business world last week was the craze for commodities. But the most serious news was the weakness of U. S. Government bonds. It became clear that an issue of Home Loan Bonds had not been snapped up by the public?and the banks, with more Government bonds than ever before in history, tended to sell rather than to buy. Nationalization of silver simply added to the befuddlement concerning the future of U. S. finances...
Adolf Hitler's hair being inky black, the Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment last week announced: "Blondness is no test of Nordicism. The present craze for blondness is to be deplored. People contemplating marriage should pay less attention to the outer appearance of their future mates and more to their family trees...
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Warner). "We see clearly that overproduction of musical films is coming quickly ... as a result of the fact that 42nd Street has broken box office records: therefore, after Cold Diggers of 1933, we will produce no more musical feature-length pictures . . . until the imitative craze dies down. . . ." This smug bit of ballyhoo, by Major Albert Warner for Gold Diggers of 1933, would have sounded more sincere if Warner Brothers' current cinemusicomedy had been a less obvious copy of their earlier one. The casts-Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks-are similar...