Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back on the floor; peering from a bunch of balloons; reflected in a mirror. To this is added a not nearly so flattering drawing and a slightly malicious little essay. The motif of many of his photographs and all of his drawings is charmingly and stuffily Edwardian, the epoch which is presently amusing England's Bright Young People. Photographic effects which he loses by scratchy, amateurish retouching are regained by cleverly arranged profusions of artificial flora, drapery, gimcracks, for Photographer Beaton is admittedly inspired by the early fashion pictures of Lallie Charles in the Sketch and Tatler. Beauties immortalized...
Here is the history of American life as it was lived in the years before the rumblings of the World War heralded the end of an epoch...
...epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but by the spoken word...
While U. S. businessmen talked at Paris of a "new epoch" (see p. 44) in Berlin best business minds bent over the farewell report of Seymour Parker Gilbert who recently ceased to be Agent General of Reparations when the duties of that office partly lapsed and were partly merged into the Bank for International Settlements (TIME, May 26). Mr. Gilbert courteously waited until $345,000,000 of Young Plan bonds secured by Germany's promise to pay were successfully floated. Then he released a 350-page report in which more than 100 pages are devoted to flaying the German...
...business have talked little of new eras, and the Silence of 1930 has come down on the Song of 1929. But in Paris last week Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, told the American Club of Paris not of a new era but of a new epoch. After admitting that business conditions throughout the world were not entirely satisfactory, that in some regions conditions were indeed acute, Mr. Ochs said: "I am an optimist and I am glad I am one. ... I think the day is not far distant when there will be little or no excuse...