Word: fad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that shrewd but disappointed politician, George III, was declared hopelessly insane, certain print shops in London began to sell miniature theatres. With them they sold engraved cards of scenes and characters; the price-a penny plain and tuppence colored. The game of playing with these toys became a fad more prevalent even than Virtue, and as fevered as the undone George. Recently, in the bookshop of S. Nott, in Manhattan, some of these tiny theatres appeared in an exhibition...
...Unnoticed in Manhattan, where he stopped on his way a few weeks ago, Juan's advent in Peru nearly caused a national holiday. When he comes back to Manhattan to spend some of his Inca-gold before returning to Spain, he may or may not become a U. S. fad. It matters not. At home, and in South America, he is a hero, a Pizarro, something...
...have adapted themselves to the pastime. On reaching the third floor they call "Oil," and a portion of the public disembarks. At the fourth floor they call "Daugherty," and the rest leave the car. Not only the public, but members from both branches of Congress have taken up the fad. One morning last week, when it was time for the Senate to open, Senator Curtis, Republican Whip, was the only member on the floor. Call bells were rung, and after some 15 minutes a quorum was gathered, but not until many Senators had torn themselves from the Investigation chambers...
...York, of course, has a practical monopoly of the telephone and telegraph wires, thus enabling it to control by tolls any radio inventions requiring the use of long-distance wires as connecting links, such as the multi-plex telephone and telegraph carrier systems. Also in 1917, before the radio fad had developed, it purchased from Lee DeForest, leading radio inventor, the patent rights of his audion vacuum tube, which is basic to all amplifying systems...
Ever since Frederick L. O'Brien published his first book on the geographical and natural wonders to be found south of the equator, the number of his followers has been growing by leaps and bounds. One might say that it had almost become a fad for members of the idle plutocracy to hire sea-going vessels with a length of not more than fifty feet, and spend the chillier months cruising in southern waters. Not so very long ago, for example, three wags set out from New Haven, with their tongues in their cheeks, to discover a new and more...