Word: fad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author Carl Van Vechten, Caucasian, who took up Negroes as an esthetic fad, then pictured them as depraved, in a book full of Harlem dives, dope peddlers, degenerates...
...that the "Ask Me Another" craze is sweeping the country, books of Questionaires are coming out almost daily, the newspapers are running questions, and the fad has even invaded the CRIMSON, it is of interest to know that the idea is by no means...
Phonographs toured the U.S., a great fad. But Mr. Edison's early improvements failed to make them commercially practicable. He dropped phonography for ten years, returning to it as his pet about 1890. He was convinced that its future was to assist stenography...
Paul Poiret, Paris Couturier: "Writing in the January Forum, I prophesied that women, led by the U.S., will soon be wearing trousers. 'And,' said I, 'they will not be a mere short-lived fad; they will become as inevitable as bobbed hair, which is here to stay.' I accompanied my pronouncement with sketches of prospective trouser-designs: The 'Shepherd,' the 'Charleston,' the 'Elastic Sheath...
...Gothic restoration is neither a fad nor a case of stylistic predilections," he has written. It is ordered by "the great rhythm of human life that is the underlying force of history." Then he diverges to show history moving in 500-year cycles, one of which is to end, and with it the so-called "modern" era (from 1450 on), in 1950. Gothic alone embodies the spirituality, the truth "as absolute as the difference between right and wrong," that can survive. He predicts a "cataclysm." He cries in the night, with the language of Thomas Carlyle and the tone...