Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashion cycle" may soon return to the point at which it started 3,000 years ago, if a recent announcement from the second international silk exposition is confirmed. One manufacturer has copyrighted the title "Tutankhamen silks" for a line of fabrics embroidered with Egyptian designs, and the suggestion of a new type of "Pharoahic styles" has been brought forward. Luxor, the burying ground of the sovereigns of ancient Egypt, may succeed Paris as the home of fashion...
This possibility has been strengthened by the discovery of what may be a fashion model in Tutankhamen's last resting place. This is the life-size wooden statue of a young woman, coated over with plaster, and painted with an enigmatic smile which can only be compared to that of the comparatively young and blooming Mona Lisa. This inhabitant of Egypt, past and present, may be a likeness of her imperial majesty, Queen Ankhsenpaten, for she has gazed at the dead prince with a never-failing smile for more than a hundred generations--proof enough of devotion. But some skeptics...
...same revival was received in Puritanic Boston without a murmur of moral protest. Professors of the drama, of music and of literature were ardent in their recommendations. Widener Library prepared a special exhibit of original manuscripts, old playbills, criticisms; illustrations, and "Gayiana". The Fine Arts Theatre became the student fashion, and the original month's run was extended two weeks and again two weeks, closing only with the Christmas recess...
...years ago if anyone had asserted that the Harvard Glee Club should one day give a joint concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in New York, he would have met only with laughter. Glee clubs were groups of college men who could sing songs after a fashion, and who liked to dance after every performance. Nothing further was expected of them...
...Countless years ago men began to utter disciplined sounds--to talk; long afterwards they began to fashion crude figures on stone or leather or papyrus--to write. The printing press came and added permanence to the thought of the moment. The typewriter followed--and the phonograph--and the camera. Now to photography, motion has been added. Already in the few short years of their existence they have made possible advantages that from our close viewpoint are almost incalculable. The actual scenes of the signing of the Magna Carta or of the landing of Christopher Columbus, or of the winter...