Word: fad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Questiounaires are a fad. Nevertheless the propensity to inquire into other people's business acquires a significance divorced from the unpleasant character of a fetish if the knowledge sought is not cloyed with a mass of irrelevance: Many polls on the question of drinking are weighted with requests for information about various environmental influences, which, interesting as they may be to the psychologist, have little significance in relation to the fundamental free choice idea of any mass government...
During his stay here President Harry Woodburn Chase of the University of North Carolina remarked that outside of the fact that the hatless fad was not in vogue here (and that probably on account of the difference in climate) the students here resembled very closely those attending the North Carolina institution. The educator whom even H. L. Mencken likes was also ready to generalize to the extent of stating that all American college students had a marked degree of universality in interests and actions...
...group of Harvard undergraduates, reported to be in dire distress financially through the collapse of the stock market last fall, have placed on sale on Harvard Square a novelty which, as one of its admittedly ingenious authors said last night, "should develop into the biggest and most hilarious fad of 1930". This novelty, which may or may not find a market among Harvard students, is a card bearing in an appropriately apologetic form, a list of social sins...