Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn, the tall Persian cat of one Mrs. Anna Kiekhoffer chased a mouse this way and that, around the garbage can, under the kitchen table, cornered him by the scuttlebutt; there began to toy with him in the remorseless sadistic fashion of tall Persian cats with small timid mice. Suddenly the tiny creature, deranged by terror, turned upon its tormentor like a lion, scrabbled into the cat's mouth, put its head down the cat's throat, choked it to death by choking to death within...
...thus indulged young George Lott in the finals of the Clay Court championship (TIME, July 27). Last week in the Illinois State tournament at the Skokie Country Club, Glencoe, Ill., he mocked Harvey Snodgrass, No. 6 on the ranking list, in the same fashion, permitting him to come within two points of winning. Score...
...North Bergen, N. J., one Emma Albert, one Otto Carver, were up in a Ferris Wheel. The wheel swayed at the top of its circle; Miss Albert's forehead was carved in a horrible fashion. The carving was caused by Carver's teeth...
...Slave of Fashion. Norma Shearer has blossomed so suddenly as a lady of large electric letters that it seems idle to deny her powers of performance. Admitting her undeniable attraction, it must be here recorded that she is not yet an able actress. She plays a country girl who takes a rich Park Avenue apartment under false pretenses and charms the owner into marrying her. Mildly worth while...
...from a swamp to a great commercial centre. It added: "If the American Government really meant to hand all this over to a corrupt and ignorant Chinese Mandarin, half magistrate and half bandit, American merchants and traders who have settled in Shanghai would make their voices heard in unmistakable fashion...