Word: fads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fad: high-school girls are wearing guard rings of black jet, reported Women's Wear last week. Wearing of the ring shows "a thought" for absent soldier boy friends, quickly indicates to all those in the know that the wearer is solo only because she is a patriot, not a wallflower...
...economic fad of 1931-32. Its thesis: technological unemployment had produced the Depression, which could not be cured until the control of production was in the hands of technicians...
...Door Life Fad...
...Sinus," like "vitamins," is the current layman's medical fad, a subject of conversation dear to sufferers, who like to give each other such advice as "Don't let a nose and throat doctor touch your sinuses; if you do, you'll have trouble the rest of your life." Such a remark, heard "almost every day," bothers Nose & Throat Specialist Russell Clark Grove of Manhattan. To prove it false, he published last week a popular handbook on sinus diseases (Sinus; Knopf...
Literally hundreds of aspiring journalists have stowed their typewriters aboard the Pan American clippers and hurried south to help feed America's latest fad, Good Neighborliness. With English-Spanish dictionaries in one hand and the coattails of some minor official in the other, these writers have garnered material for thousands of "fresh from the pampas" articles and books. Director of the Committee on Cultural Relations with South America for fifteen years, Hubert Herring is not one of these new-found-friends of the South...