Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Some trust to evolution, or the natural development of forces already present in society. Others would lay violent hands on our present society and fashion it as they will. The communists would solve the question by running away from it. They throw up our present civilization in despair and draw themselves into simple and even primitive conditions of life...
...then traveled abroad and wrote his first two Cantos of Childe Harold. He found himself famous. He now became the darling of fashion. His affectation and cynicism were intensified. He married a Miss Millbank. The disunion which followed caused such indignation that he was driven from England...
...will do well to free himself of the idea that great books go by fashion but we must read some books because the world is reading them; we must keep "in touch" with society. Such was the popularity of Uncle Tom's Cabin that Thackeray regretted he had not made a negro the hero of Henry Esmond which appeared in the same year...
...been the fashion in certain localities, of which this is one, to decry party organizations. All party machinery and party organizations are condemned as inherently bad. My purpose is to consider whether this attitude has any sound justification, either historically or practically, for its existence. As modern political government, conducted through the medium of political parties is peculiarly the work of the English speaking people, I shall not go outside the history of that people in this branch of the discussion...
...eot.FOR SALE - Bay pacing mare, 15 hands and 1-2 in height, weight 950, solid color, (bay), perfectly sound and kind. She can go a mile in 2.34 in road buggy. Two very promising young horses. These horses can be driven together now in three minutes. The youngest, "Fashion," is fully sixteen hands, and is a strong and powerful looking horse in every way, and is thoroughly broken and weighs about 1,100 pounds. His sister, 15-1, weight about 1,000. Both raised from Membrano stock. For particulars enquire of Galloupe Morton, Harvard Law School...