Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admirably prepared. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, surely our leading stage and off-stage husband and wife, had the leads. Henry Travers, Pedro de Cordoba and other familiar faces rounded out the cast. Since the play was written so many years ago, it was wisely staged in the fashion of that day, and has become, within the lifetime of the author, a costume play...
...sundown, and at that hour candles, sombre and fierce, like thin yellow hands up-pointed in prayer, shone in the synagogues and wagged incongruously above the mahogany grain of apartment breakfast-room suites where prosperous Jews kept the feast of Rosh Hashonah (the New Year), after their own fashion. Telegraph wires crackled with messages of good cheer. In The American Hebrew appeared a symposium on "Liberalism ? the Gospel of the Open Mind" with articles by Governor Smith, William Allen White, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, and many another famed educator or politician...
...still crimson in their cheeks, journeyed to the Apawamis Club in Rye N. C., to play in the annual U. S. Seniors golf tournament Among them were famed lawyers and financial figures, a retired rear admiral,* the president of a great insurance company?; they played, each according to his fashion, around the Apawamis course. There were inumerable prizes?for men over 80, for men over 75, putting contests, best net and best gross cards for 18 and 36 holes. But the medal for the famed event?the championship for men over 50, went to Frederick Snare of Garden City...
...Joyfully she recalled a visit to her former home, Claremont, Del., when her mother had coined the title. After four years ransacking attics, museums, once-popular song folios, old journals and letters, Peterson's Floral Adornments for the Home of Taste, Friendship Albums, memories of elders and bygone fashion-plates (perhaps too many of these)-she wrote the book. Of which act, says she: "I couldn't keep up with myself-it was glorious ... I really felt drunk." She had published two books previously. A Pocketful of Poses and Semi-Attached...
...orchestra tinkled dreamily in the empty ballroom of the Hotel Waldorf, Manhattan. Empty? But no. For some 25 four-footed creatures glided over its glazed parquetry. The music stopped, the 25 four-footed creatures split apart, after the fashion of multiplying atoms, into 50 two-footed creatures. They were dancing masters of the U. S. gathered for their annual convention. Professor Philip N. Nutt, of Vineland, N. J., (in velvet plus-fours and silk stockings) waved his hand. The music began again...