Word: fad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...constantly in fear that the fad for Gothic, for which credit or crime is at least partially due to Messrs. Cram and Ferguson will spread to some of those universities which still represent in their buildings the unmixed blessings of a single native tradition in architecture, that our own earlier unique and dignified American inheritance will be sacrificed, and that a Gothic anachronism will appear on the campus of the University of Virginia, William and Mary or at Harvard as now threatens. May God forbid such desecration--From a communication in The Daily Princetonian...
...York Herald Tribune, an American connoisseur of art has carried from the shores of France no less than a historic relic of primary importance, a monument to French Democracy--in fact, the very bath tub in which the great Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday. This new fad of Americans no longer to confine themselves to purely artistic objects and to enter the field of historic memorials has caused the fellow countrymen of Watteau and Monet to rise in righteous anger to defend their national treasures. At present, their efforts have taken the form of a million dollar law suit...
...Evolution is the salad dressing of science and a fad that will pass as the minds of scientists grow...
...four years Mr. Gilbert, a quiet, courteous, red-haired graduate of Rutgers, has been making the Dawes Plan work. Unquestionably his present report, with its searching analysis of Germany's capacity to continue her huge Reparations payments, will form the chief basis of fad upon which Tycoon Young and the Committee of Experts will base their decisions in revising the Dawes Plan...
...raised to trusted though untrustworthy house servant, and by chance transported to "Easter Orange," N. J. There a wealthy, ridiculous patroness of the new art "discovers" her; it seems that Sadie's angular primitive skull is "the focus of the geometry." Cubism is at its height; the Negro fad starts its blatant vogue with a nude of Black Sadie. From popular artists' model, Sadie proceeds to nightclub fame ending abruptly with a row, murder, discreet fadeaway. On the whole she is glad to be shet of no 'count white folks that treat her as an equal...