Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lost a hard fought game to Fordham, 33 to 29, the New Yorkers forging ahead in the second half. Yale has defeated Holy Cross by a score of 28 to 15. Reilly at center is the major threat of the Holly Cross five, scoring 12 points in handy fashion against Norwich, his team winning the game by a 43 to 26 count. He is expected to lead the attack against the Crimson defense tonight...
...Chinese Dragon thus breathed defiance to the world, the British Lion wavered almost ludicrously irresolute last week. The British War ministry was very, very busy conditioning the Lion's claws; but the British Foreign Office was even busier wagging the Lion's tail in a friendly, ingratiating fashion...
News of these troop movements of course reached China by cable, and profoundly excited the Chinese. In North Chinn, now nominally friendly to the foreigner, the great War Lord Chang Tso-lin spoke through his son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, in ominous fashion...
...spring fashion shows in Paris, females were shown what to wear: evening gowns that came up to the neck in front and down to the waist* in back; sport sweaters used as jumpers; belts on jackets, ensemble coats and separate coats; colors of red banana, vert d'eau (light green), cochineal, silver grey, violine (light purplish blue...
...requesting them to pick it up; if they wore a 'board' stooping would be impossible, or, at all events, very difficult. The ordeal would cover them with confusion, when the philosopher of 13 years would resume his moral lectures upon the laws of hygiene and the follies of fashion...