Word: fad
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...Evolution is the salad dressing of science and a fad that will pass as the minds of scientists grow...
...four years Mr. Gilbert, a quiet, courteous, red-haired graduate of Rutgers, has been making the Dawes Plan work. Unquestionably his present report, with its searching analysis of Germany's capacity to continue her huge Reparations payments, will form the chief basis of fad upon which Tycoon Young and the Committee of Experts will base their decisions in revising the Dawes Plan...
...raised to trusted though untrustworthy house servant, and by chance transported to "Easter Orange," N. J. There a wealthy, ridiculous patroness of the new art "discovers" her; it seems that Sadie's angular primitive skull is "the focus of the geometry." Cubism is at its height; the Negro fad starts its blatant vogue with a nude of Black Sadie. From popular artists' model, Sadie proceeds to nightclub fame ending abruptly with a row, murder, discreet fadeaway. On the whole she is glad to be shet of no 'count white folks that treat her as an equal...
...consumption of potatoes has decreased 25% in the last two years. There was a crop surplus of 80,000,000 bushels in 1927. There will probably be a bigger surplus this year. These figures caused Gov. H. Clarence Baldridge of Idaho to flay "that foolish women's fad for slim figures'' before a convention of potato-growers in Chicago last week. Gov. Baldridge, as everyone knows, has both potato-growers and women among his constituents...
...waste at Cold Harbor, Grant was unfortunately awarded the presidency. He knew nothing about politics or human character, neither of these imponderables being tangible matter of action. His chosen advisers were crooked or incompetent (the minister to England, a poker expert, taught the game to British peers, started a fad), his policies pathetic; but grimly he stuck to both. Scandals rivaling Teapot Dome culminated in the gold corner by Gould and Fisk, shrewd rascals who dazzled Grant with their powerful wealth, involved the honest dupe in fiasco...