Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should not think that you would want to make yourselves look stingy and cheap, but that is the impression produced upon me by the heading above your new "Fashion Department" [Nov. 14 issue...
...offer to "reward" the subscriber who detects a genuine new fashion with "knowledge that he has performed a petty public service." First I ask you if it would not be only decent to give such a subscriber at least $10 for services which are to your profit. It makes me angry to see people trying to get away with something for nothing. That is not a straight way to do business. It will not react to your favor in the long...
...what is "a petty public service?" I should say that an act were either a public service or else no public service, and I should say that a note on a genuine new fashion would fall into the latter class, being a service not to the General Public, but to the editors of TIME, who are trying to get something for nothing. What is the answer...
Time was when the Show stood in the public consciousness as a fashion mirror and a society assemblage, more than as a gathering of horses. In those days there were more horses in use, less society. The latter, formidably fortified with new apparel, converged from many cities; festivities started with a dinner at Del-monico's;*everything was eminently haughty. It was well worth the public's money to see such sights. It still is, no doubt; but last week most people went to see the horses...
ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL-Edward Morgan Forster-Harcourt, Brace (82.50). Author of A Passage to India, and other less famed but meritorious novels, E. M. Forster gave a series of lectures at Cambridge. In these lectures, now published, he traces, weighs, values, explains in original fashion, the elements of the novel. These elements: "The Story," "The People," "The Plot," "Fantasy," "Prophecy," "Pattern and Rhythm," he exhibits in many examples. For "Story," he quotes and examines Walter Scott, for "Plot," Andre Gide. The result is a book devoted to the highest form of criticism, inquiry. To those who read novels...