Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jesters, and all those who find in the world's armor of convention the vulnerable joints through which to prick with tiny irritating shafts and barbs have always been a persecuted brotherhood. When jesters were really in fashion, the indignities were such uncomfortably tangible things as straw-beds, and a monkey or two to share the couch. In latter days, Puritans, police and preachers contrive to make life at least exciting for the Merry Andrews, and, incidentally, to provide further food for fun. But not until now, so far as we can tell, has merriment and its disciples been subjected...
Between elections the windy City seems to amuse itself with choruses and saccharine songs, in the approved fashion of soft-headed, hard fisted story book heroes. And those venturesome native sons who dare to return home for their Easter oggs will find a pleasant and only slightly faded array of shows waiting for them. The critics say these are the best...
...seven mad days before, Chicagoans saw mud slung in steam-shovel fashion, the so-called "better element" cheered 10,000 women marching for "Dever and decency." "Big Bill" Thompson, idol of half Chicago, its mayor from 1915-23, made his chief issue the King of England, swung his huge hams of fists, slung mud. Of his onetime intimate, Dr. Robertson, Mr. Thompson said: "The doc is slinging mud. I'm not descending to personalities, but let me tell you if you want to see a nasty sight you; watch Doc Robertson eating in a restaurant. Eggs in his whiskers...
...yokel or diplomat, foreigner or native wit. In this portion of the book alone does the author play the game he has chosen for though fairry adroit satire pinch-hits for the more rugged sincerity which any critical work presupposes he nevertheless concludes his observations in more commendable fashion than he approached his unfamiliar subject...
Misha Auer, as the young lieutenant, clicks his heals and salutes his superiors in convincing fashion, while Leonard Mudie is particularly well suited for the role of the pastor who was neither a hypocrite nor a fool...