Word: fad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years after the marriage Prince Bismarck humored one of his strangest whims. He commenced to make a fad of weighing himself and measuring his family. The weights he kept to himself. On Dec. 31, 1880, he pasted some statistics on his bedroom wall...
...sand up-on the ruts where first his chariot wheels carved their royal course, long have the mysteries of death been open sesame to him, yet this king, no older than the Shavian Cleopatra, still survives. Once the leader of a kingdom, again the leader of a Twentieth Century fad, Tutankhamen has within the week eclipsed contemporary suns with the shadow of his majesty. For labor leaders, finance ministers, and even divorcees are never buried in coffins of gold in an eternal setting of jewels. A people hungry for the glints of splendor find much to amuse and thrill their...
...headlines and rotogravures and little private tales have long since generalized the popular association of "dancing", "frenzy", and "prince". In spite of the rumor that the Prince's visit to America was just another publicity attempt of the Fox-Trot Association, the newspapers spread the reports of his fad for dancing through the world, with the result that his loyal subjects in South Africa decided that his visit could be fittingly celebrated only by examples of the closest approximations to his favorite sport. And since the heads of the Zulu tribes, less foolhardy than the Duncan sisters, did not dare...
...latest fad in smart London society is being introduced to New York on April 18 and promises to give the masses--those jaded with leisure and overburdened with wealthy--one little fling at adventure. Imagine what a treasure hunt will mean to those unfortunate souls whose joie de vivre has been crushed by a ceaseless dreary round of charity balls and benefit teas. The aureole of romance which encircles this hunt--a recherché combination of fox hunting and "Hare and Hounds" beginning with a Hunt Breakfast at the Plaza, followed by a wild taxi chase through the city...
...know what you're missing; Take the fad up right away! Why daddy missed an iron by an inch...