Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baldwins returned to their limousine a group of miners and their wives collected in half-hearted fashion. A woman, the wife of a miner still trapped in the mine, pointed to the Baldwins and suddenly shrieked: "Murderers! Murderers!! You won't let them rescue my Tom . . . you-you rich beasts...
...days later the statesmanship of U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg assumedly prompted Vice Admiral Clarence S. Williams, commanding the U. S. forces at Shanghai, to imitate the British parade, though in more cautious fashion. Twelve hundred U. S. marines marched, but they did not venture beyond the international city. None the less Chinese knew this meant that the U. S. is standing with Britain in the present crisis...
Connell characters, as perfect and unreal as fashion advertisements, achieve life by the sheer velocity of their improbable actions. The Prince reappears in this novel precisely that way, deus ex machina. He modestly accepts a hand-knitted sweater from Hero Gerald Shannon, thereby enabling the latter to become a Self-Made Man and town-builder back in Ireland, as broad Kevin Shannon, his father, had been in the U. S. How might that be? By the same token that Gerald Shannon chances to hang his shoes on the chandelier and trousers in the tub, and to take a circus troupe...
With the lecture on Richard Brinsley Sheridan we leave the literary sphere of dignified New England Victorianism to visit the frivolous, frothy world of eighteenth century fashion...
...house. I found a policeman, was able to identify one Charles Logan when he was captured. Said I: "I was lucky." Charles Logan had an ugly knife.'" Edward of Wales: "In London smart young dancing men have been observed smoking 'midget cigarets,' half standard size. The fashion was attributed to me under headlines: 'BETWEEN-DANCES FAGS MADE TO PLEASE WALES.' I have a midget cigaret case." Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole: "In Havana, the Gaceta de Policia displayed the picture of a face with notice of $2,000 reward for capture...