Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Student Councils are already in grave danger of going out of fashion. If they are to become mere shadows of their original selves, functionless and valueless, they cannot expect long to continue in existence. Nowhere does general interest in a Student Council lag as much as at Harvard nowhere are the dangers of that Council's dying a natural death so great. If the Harvard Student Council is to continue to exist and to play an essential part in undergraduate life it must turn its attention with increasing energy and intelligence to those fields which still offer wide opportunities...
...Chicago, the Coolidge movement was permitted to continue at the Mayor William Hale Thompson headquarters. In Manhattan, the same movement was kept alive in a suaver fashion by G. O. Politicians Charles Dewey Hilles and George Morris...
Persons of fashion use a strange adjective for the things which they consider as belonging properly to their environment; such things they call "smart." Less polished people use an adjective which is far more descriptive of smart things: they use the word "ritzy." The word is from the proper noun, Ritz; Ritz is the name of the smartest chain of hotels in the world...
...pensive grocer sat, his chin snuggled in his palm, at the rear of the Cincinnati convention hall where this past week the American Wholesale Grocers' Association was holding its yearly meeting. Before him on the convention floor wholesalers rose in diverse and unpredictable fashion to explode with the troubles of their business. On the platform President J. H. McLaurin of the association stormed at his constituents. They must fight together to preserve themselves, he cried; they must support the individual store keeper; they must oppose the chain store...
...murder of Don Ramon Valdez, the plot of Orsini to break the bank at Monte Carlo, the final hunt for the Apache Latouche, two crimes of the "perfect murderer," Hanoi Shan, and others, are all told in a clear, concise, not undramatic fashion. They are tales of detection at first hand, for in almost every case the author himself had some part...