Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whence came these people, whom we call the Mayas? What was the catastrophe that wiped out the civilizations of their golden age so suddenly that no tradition of them was left among the savage tribes who inherited their territory? In what fashion did the immigrant Mayas retrieve a measure of ancient culture in a new land? When we enter their deserted cities we feel the poignantly tantalizing quality of the mystery that surrounds a magnificent ship discovered in mid-ocean with sails set, gear in order and not a soul on board...
Such private activities Brother Dr. John Harvey Kellogg glances at in his quick, comprehending fashion, then looks aside to his medical, surgical, educational, inventive, publishing and research organizations, of which he is the driving force...
...insistence that the only real issue of the trial was a religious one, and his insistence that literal interpretation of the Bible was the religion he and his colleagues were championing. It reduced to absurdity the notion of setting up the Bible as an educational criterion, in this fashion...
...rather curiously, has been popular. Steven's 'Paul Bunyan" records the yarns of the great legendary character of the American lumber-camps. Theodore Dreiser has written his first novel in several years, "An American Tragedy," in two volumes. J. R. Dos Passos in "Manhattan Transfer," writing in a kaleidoscopic fashion that savours of James Joyce describes the life of New York--or a part of it. Christopher Morley's "Thunder on the Left" is well known and applauded. "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" by John Erskine is an entertaining and modern story of that fascinating lady after...
...Betting on horse races." Major Beith remarked, "is conducted in England in much the same fashion as bootlegging in America. When you want to lay a wage on a horse you say 'carnation' or 'hollyhock' to indicate 'five pounds' or 'ten pounds' just as in America I understand one says 'orchestra' or 'balcony' when one is ordering spiritual refreshment from a bootlegger...