Word: fad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overnight, elaborate sets were on the market. Big Companies, like the General Electric, Westinghouse, Edison, American Telephone and Telegraph, broadcasted programs of music and other diversions, which might be listened to in fine reproduction by anyone owning a radio set. Thousands and thousands bought sets, and the great radio fad was under way. It increased to wonderful proportions. Today newspapers run special radio supplements, and throughout the country countless numbers of people " tune in" every evening, and pick up what diverting sounds they can through the air. The programs broadcast were at first very fine, especially...
...strong reaction has set in among Parisian critics against the Russian fad (Balieff, Diaghileff, Rostov and a score of imitators...
...their remarkable popularity with unlinguistic Americans seems somewhat strange at first glance. It is true that they attract a certain number who would listen to Chinese or Polyglot simply because it was the thing to do. But such sincere art as this could never degenerate into a mere fad. Audiences who are seeking the artistic, do not find it spoiled merely because some of the subtleties are lost in a foreign tongue. One catches the inspiration of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, even though it has no head, no feet, and only...
...psychology better vindicated than by those same facts and by stamp collecting in general. Even the Jackdaw of Rheims was no more given to this acquisitiveness than the Philatelists who amassed a collection of New Zealand stamps worth, a hundred-thousand dollars. So firmly is the hobby, or the fad, rooted in human nature that a firm of stamp dealers was willing to give practically that amount for the collection in a recent sale. And a similar Swiss firm has sent its principal to this country and widely advertised his coming "for the benefit of advanced collectors...
...ought to be answered. The prospect of such a course appears profitable. Laboratory work in psychology is as common as in chemistry; strange things are said to happen behind closed doors on the top floor of Emerson Hall; and at a nearby women's college "psych" is such a fad that several hundred students are learning two unfamiliar foreign languages, merely for the purpose of computing a certain mental factor. But at Chicago, and in the field of love psychology, the possibilities are infinite...