Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through his long and varied career seems to have the joyous virulence with which he attacks his enemy of the moment. Since he will probably not be wafted into the White House on the wings of his oratory, to hear his manifestoes can remain an innocent pleasure --after the fashion of the "cup that cheers but not inebriates...
...understood by few, and are in addition not half so lascivious or persuasive as the text of the average A. H. Woods farce. The operatic pantomime, when well done, evokes a scholarly mood and more estheticism than erotic thrills. The scene of the head is moderately horrible after the fashion of the traditional Grand Guignol, but is certainly not of a sort to lead bashful youth astray. Mary Garden's stilted dance might be witnessed by the frailest virtue without danger...
...late it has become more and more the fashion to deplore the passing of the good old days when football teams played for the love of the game, and there were few if any coaches, and no elaborate "systems", and strategy and plans of campaign. Perhaps the good old days really existed once. But as one of the members of the Harvard coaching staff points out in today's CRIMSON, "rightly or wrongly, football has become a matter of immense importance to all college men." Rightly or wrongly, too, the game as now played requires a coach who will...
...this glorious fashion did Mr. Withersq, whose uncle Bert had died and left him a good bit, set out to go into society, with his love Lelia. The dashing lady was "a fair rose of Briton, rather false hair like we see advertised, her somewhat perfect nose would scarce be noticed to have been turned up, owing to sleeping on her stomach". At the same time "she was just a lowborn girl, but none could beat her at playing the piano". And Mr. Withersq is no piker. He crashes right into a Bohemian festival the first night out, visits...
...line in a position for Howe to rush it over on the next play. Several touchdowns later, Pfaffman outdid Cheek's performance by taking the ball on the 50 yard line and carrying it across the goal line without a stop. The other touchdowns were made in less sensational fashion. Perhaps the most serious failing of the afternoon was in drop kicking: of the six attempts for goals from the field, two were blocked, one failed and only three were successful...