Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oklahoma territory at the age of ten. He made the acquaintance of cow-boys. Indians, and bandits, and at the age of nineteen served as a cow-boy himself on the range in New Mexico and Colorado. He tells about his picturesque life in the most human and likeable fashion, and his West is even more exciting than that of flashy novels and photoplays because it has the convincing spirit of reality and historical correctness. Mr. Collins' plea for authentic portrayal of conditions and life in those lusty days is a commendable one, and by carrying out his own precepts...
...days when he was relatively unsophisticated, married Edith Rockefeller and entered the bright, ineluctable world of fame and fashion which awaited him with terrible certainty from the day of his birth. Much later, still a little puzzled by celebrities, and somewhat irked by their cost, he married famed Ganna Walska, who astounded the world by frantic attempts to sing grand opera...
...present generation of undergraduates is a self-opinionated lot, and as the years slip along into the mounting thirties, they will probably become more so. They know what they want, or think they do, and they're going to get it. They will not be led by the fashion of the moment. The bug of specialization has bit the colleges, and the average undergraduate is too firm in his own mind, or too solicitous for his own welfare to lavish time and ability on a multitude of matters that do not yield him a definite, tangible return. There...
...last week, is Prince Ludovico Spada Potenziani, famed because he was visited by and returned the visit of New York's Mayor James ("Jimmy") Walker. Tall, bronzed, cadaverous and silent, Prince Potenziani left his office for the last time without a word to subordinates, merely saluting them in Fascist fashion, with his right arm inclined upward and forward...
...fully lived up to expectations by capably piloting his team throughout the season. In addition to filling the quarterback post, he was the high scorer of the team, counting in five games four touchdowns and one field goal. In his Sophomore year Putnam began the season in suspicious fashion. His wise selection of plays combined with a certain degree of daring were largely responsible for a close victory over Dartmouth. Shortly after this however, an injury incapacitated him for the remainder of the season, and scholastic difficulties prevented him from playing last fall. Whether or not he can regain...