Word: fads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stars & Stripes turned an angry soldier's eye on "the psychoneurosis fad which is sweeping the country and which is based on the belief that every returning veteran is maladjusted...
...plaintive ballad about the man who dared ask a wartime waiter for one meat ball is fast becoming a fad with U.S. bobby-soxers. The adolescents have no idea how old-fashioned they are: their latest musical hero was well known to Boston in the 1850s. Almost a century ago, a shy Harvard Latin professor named George Martin Lane tried to buy a single fish ball in a restaurant, heard his piddling order bellowed out by a surly waiter...
...word "vitamin" is only 34 years old, and the vitamin fad is younger still. But this passage from St. Jerome's Life of St. Hilarion, written some 1,550 years ago and recently quoted by a letter writer to the British Nature, is an accurate description of vitamin A deficiency and its cure. Though ordinary olive oil contains almost no vitamin A, Nature's erudite correspondent noted that "a crude and unpurified oil such as St. Hilarion would have permitted himself" would contain enough of the vitamin to cure...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt, tiaraed Queen of New York's and Newport's Old Guard society, won a new title when her partygoing set started a parlor-game fad of tagging socialites with appropriate literary titles. She is now known to her intimates as the Queen of Sheba...
America's latest and greatest fad since the automobile has been creating traffic hazards in downtown Boston for the past week--and threatens to cause the complete downfall of the Hub's traffic system before he leaves...