Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, the New York Herald Tribune, outstanding G. O. P. organ of the East, said in an editorial: "The unique and impressive fact of the Hoover campaign is the fashion in which it has stirred spontaneous support in every section of the country...
...business of its offices, now nearly 300, all in California, requires that one board of management sit constantly in San Francisco, and another in Los Angeles. James Augustus Bacigalupi is president; Lorenzo Scatena, 78, chairman of its directorate. Amadeo Peter Giannini gives it banking advice, in much the same fashion that engineers advise public utilities on their operations...
...forbid. I think that this is only another demonstration of the fact that the old maxim of "Spare the rod and spoil the child" has quite gone out of fashion of late. Its is easy to say that a college student is no longer a child: maybe not, in the accepted sense of the word, but he certainly is intellectually, in comparison to those professors whose duty it is to guide him on the paths of learning...
...social philosophy, but as romance, thus defying comparison with The Republic of Plato, or More's Utopia, or even Gulliver's Travels. The author does indeed seem to advocate demagogy, and polygamy; does indeed say his say against the established practice of medicine and law, and the fashion of childlessness. But all so casually that the reader need not take him seriously, is in fact far too engrossed with the tale to bother with the sociology, or the presence of occasional unwarranted melodrama. For Deluge is an excellent good yarn. It is also this month's Book...
...such. ENGLISH LITERATURE IN ITS FOREIGN RELATIONS (1300-1800). By Lourie Magnus, E. P. Dutton, New York, 1927, $3.), is a recent and adequate attempt to fulfill this need. Mr. Magnus is especially interested in Continental influences on English Literature. He treats the subject completely and in a scholarly fashion. The result is a valuable addition to the ranks of the semi-text books...