Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this fashion, last fortnight, did Nicholas B. Jones. 87, Civil War veteran of Enid, Okla.. describe a Lincoln-Shields duel near Springfield, Ill. He said it took place in 1861, when Shields, later Civil War general and Senator from Illinois and Missouri, was state auditor. Letters deriding him appeared in the Springfield Journal. He accused Lincoln, who refused to retract. According to the accepted ver sion of the Lincoln-Shields affair, broadswords were chosen and a site on the Missouri shore some 50 miles away. But friends interceded, prevented the duel...
Clothes. The name "Fashion Park Associates Inc." was chosen last week to include the products of three famed haberdasheries, newly merged: Weber & Heilbroner, Inc., Stein-Bloch Co., Fashion Park Inc. Capitalized at $10,000,000, Fashion Park Associates will soon acquire control of Metropolitan Co. (Dayton, Ohio), Max Adler Co. (South Bend, Ind.), L. E. Oppenheim & Co. (Bay City, Mich.), Oppenheim's (Jackson, Mich...
...their first bulletin the Professors confidently predicted complete recovery. Candid, they described dealing with the Senator's face in such thoroughgoing fashion that "it will be temporarily impossible for him to take food, except through a tube piercing the bandages...
...erroneous U. S. impression that Soviet housewives have no servants was corrected, last week, by earnest, diligent Commissar of Health Nikolai A. Semashko in somewhat startling fashion. With the total candor of an authentic savant, Comrade Semashko stated...
Plot: The pious folk of a Russian provincial town fiendishly conspire against a kindly atheist professor of zoology and his wife (Mme. Lunacharsky). The professor is expelled from his post, after the Christians "frame" him in such fashion as to make it appear that he is a pervert. Reduced to penury, the professor's wife is seduced by the man who framed him; and this "Holy Devil" then proceeds to poison...