Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guarantee Trust Company, is tall, muscular, pale-eyed, with a long neck and sloping shoulders which are the despair of tailors but which served him well at Yale (1922) where he pulled a good oar, dabbled in writing, discussed aesthetic topics with his instructors in a modest yet eager fashion. He has good taste in pictures, attends the opera regularly...
...Lady Randolph Churchill's habit of wearing about her neck a little medal with the portraits of her two sons created a sort of fashion which led to similar commissions on the part of many other people. . . . The Queen** greeted me with a good morning in a gentle, agreeable voice. . . . 'Do you play bridge?' the Prince asked me. 'No, Sir, 1 have never had the opportunity to learn, nor do I possess the necessary mental concentration for the game,' was my reply. . . . There was a light tap at the door and a messenger entered...
...publishers, the Harvard Athletic Association, to amuse the impatient crowds in case of a postponement of the starting time, to educate them in "What the Young Girl May Wear", to give them a background of crew history, and to give them, in the most approved off-hand fashion, some idea of who will race on Friday...
...remainder of this leviathan is filled with yatching notes, pictures, fashion news, theatrical briefs, jokes, and advertisements, which rival those of Vanity Fair...
Ernest W. Barries, the philosopher-scientist whose elevation to the bishopric of Birmingham inspired voluminous discussion last fall (TIME, Sept. 29), set himself again where the roads of opinion cross. He was preaching at Brighton, a watering place once more fashionable than it now is. Said he: "Human welfare is now menaced by human fecundity. The change from large to small families is not to be impatiently condemned. Victories in medicine and hygiene may be disastrous for public welfare unless the desire for many children, which is natural and until recently laudable, is held in check." The same evening...