Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evident by the signs that the world, in its intense modern fashion, having, due largely to Mr. Bok, just gone through a "Think-about-Peace" week is entering on a "Consider-the-next-War" week. Coincidently one reads that the army is about to test a new plane that carries enough bombs to demoralize a whole city; that the British air ministry is leaving nothing to chance in the perfection of the air defenses of London; and that the American navy is conducting manoeuvres on a grand scale.--All of which may be magnificent, but it is not peace...
ROTOFOTO WEEKLY?A Magazine of Fiction, Fotos, Fashion...
...without the assistance of any benevolent jinx. In spite of the unfortunate injury of Captain Stout, which incapacitates him for the rest of the season, the reorganized Tigers gave the powerful Yale sextette a hard battle last Saturday, and may be relied upon to perform tonight in the same fashion...
Besides rendering the country the marked service of producing a cabalistic word eminently suited to turn bootleggers to stone and petrify rum-runners in their very tracks, Mr. King has set the fashion which undoubtedly will become popular of inventing expressive nick-names of sufficient repulsiveness to apply to nuisances and wrong-doors of every kind. If one is plagued by cigarette borrowers, one can wreak one's vengeance by calling them "ciggabars" or "gottabutts". Or if one's room mate insists on leaving the bath-room door open when the bed-room window is up, one might effectively insult...
...Needs. "The Government must aid him. It must obtain for him lower freight rates. It must in effective fashion scrutinize the spread between production and consumption. It must not only promote cooperation among the farmers themselves, but itself must sympathetically cooperate with them...