Word: faddist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pipe smoking has some drawbacks which even a 'Cliffedwelling faddist will admit to. Two of them bumped into a Boston Post reporter last spring. The astonished scribe was moved to comment, "The only thing that showed the girls still had their marbles was that they refused to divulge their names...
...Basil Rathbone tells the audience Toad inhabits his ancestral home, Toad Hall. Instead of acting with the dignity befitting a young man in such circumstances, Toad is a madcap adventurer, a faddist whose fancies often become manias of the most compulsive (and hilarious) sort. After cavorting about the countryside in a canary-yellow cart drawn by a horse named Cyril, Toad winds up in the Tower of London...
Between 1920 and 1926, Childs never netted less than $1,500,000 a year. The Magazine of Wall Street called it one of the five most depression-proof stocks in the U.S. Then William Childs (Sam had died in 1925) turned faddist, and tried to turn Childs's customers into vegetarians. No more sausages with griddle cakes; no more rhubarb pie (someone had told him rhubarb was poisonous). Customers stayed away in droves, and the depression left Childs stranded with high-priced real estate and leases signed at boom-time rentals...
Though [More] was moderate in eating and drinking, he was never fussy and he tried to avoid all singularity. No man ever lived who was less of a faddist. He did eat meat, and was specially fond of corned beef...
Despite its faddist aspects and doctrinaire squabbles, psychoanalysis is a serious, exacting process. Analysts take great pains to disassociate themselves from the horde of phony "psychologists" and other quacks. A psychoanalyst, like any other psychiatrist, must have a medical degree, spend at least five years in psychiatric study after his internship and have a complete psychoanalysis of himself to win professional recognition by his colleagues. Many states have no law regulating the practice of psychoanalysis, but associations of psychiatrists lay down standards, try to police their profession...