Word: fad
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...want to stay. I wanted no part of society people who were looking for someone to say sweet things to them on Sunday. I know now that I misjudged them, but at that time I didn't think they meant business-that it was just a fad they'd tire...
Beer from a Bottle. Bebop has been around for seven or eight years, and something of a fad for two, but experts still disagree over what it is, and whether it will last. Gusty, oldtime Blues Singer Chippie Hill says flatly and hopefully that "It won't last. My 16-month-old niece does it when she drinks beer out of her bottle, and does it better than any of them." To the naked ear its shrill cacophony seems anarchistic; on repeated hearings it becomes clear that the players planned it that way. Duke Ellington, now a disc jockey...
...fad appeared in Georgia-grasshopper-eating.* Across the state, college students and other daredevils gulped them down alive for $1.50 to $20 a hopper. Said one girl: "It tickled slightly when it went down and was sort of scratchy." Said a male eater: "Something like live grass...
...goldfish-eating fad, a Clark University student ate 89 fish at one sitting...
...fad spread to the U.S. in the '20s. The most artlessly forthright paste-up in last week's show was made by Arthur Dove in 1925. Entitled Grandmother, it consisted of a needlepoint embroidery, a few shingles, a page from the Bible, a pressed flower and fern. But, except among commercial artists (who have found it useful), the trick never caught on in the U.S. as it did in Europe...