Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bear down on the "formula" idea so hard. It will make your magazine too tricky, I warn you. See how monotonous those Fashion pages are now when you read them over: 'The Idea, the Motive, the Story. The Idea, the Motive, the Story. The Idea, the Motive, the Story." I was so tired that I had to stop in the middle, go off to p. 26 for a little relief and come back later to finish...
Good intentions deserve good counsel. Mine to you is to cut out this latest FASHION department, "formula...
...Clothes:" This is the first time that I can recall where you put the only real fact of an article in its footnote: " "In Catholic countries blue (the Virgin's color) is used for girls and pink for boys." That is new news to me and rationalizes a "fashion." I appre ciate also your telling me the important department stores of eight great cities. Otherwise this article is twiddle-twoddle...
Although the news has not yet reached the majority of American interior decorators, a change is coming over the fashion in parior keepsakes. The chip from the base of the Sphinx, the vial of water from the Red Sea, the bag of dust from the Catacombs; they are all doomed to go. The thing to supplement the pictures taken at the beach is now the family collection of "priceless and cherished symbols of American sport achievement," as the New York store sponsoring the idea calls them. Baseballs whose motion during a world series has been broadcast to five million listeners...
...baseball stands containing 6,000 covered seats and 6,000 bleacher seats will be ready for the first baseball game next spring. These new stands are symmetrical and fire proof and will be a great improvement over the old wooden stands which were built in a very irregular fashion. The new stands will provide 1453 more covered seats than were available in the old stand. The varsity baseball diamond and field which has been considered one of the best baseball playing fields in the country has been preserved and has not been disturbed in any way through the construction...