Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank S. Snook, has just been appointed Chief of the State Department of Motor Vehicles. Snook immediately canceled 3,000 special badges issued to favored motorists, which are supposed to make them immune from arrest. Then he issued orders that "arrests shall be made in a decent, manly fashion, without abuse and without insulting-language or attitude, which occasionally has caused resentment...
...could dance the Boston? That was what the guests of Mme. Pilsudska wanted to know. Already the fiddles were beginning; the gentlemen, in the order of a fashion lost in the U. S., and in some parts of Europe, but maintained here in the core of Warsaw society, were crossing the ballroom of the Merchants' Club to choose their partners. It was an exhilarating moment, four o'clock in the morning, the beginning of the Boston at this party given by Mme. Pilsudska, wife of Marshal Pilsudski, the "Dictator." A handsome youth was introduced to the wife...
...marriage in general and royal marriages in particular are no longer what they used to be in the days of his several times great grandfather. Charles V who, by merely choosing the right pair of parents, netted himself a christening gift of half the world. It is all the fashion in these times for Queens as well as other women to go about with the twelve pound look firmly pressed upon their still not unlovely faces. Hence to marry a lady of title or riches is no longer a passport to a life of honor or respect. Even princes must...
...left Austria in billions, legally and by the connivance of avaricious Christians. For a time Christian gold flowed in from the outer world but soon it was all lost by the charming but impractical Viennese. Department stores passed into Christian hands but the aisles were vacant, management was stupid, fashion languished. The krone, dropping dizzily, turned today's newly-rich bourgeois into tomorrow's bankrupt. Theatres closed or gave dull plays with inept actors. Tens of thousands of Viennese apartments stood vacant. Viennese husbands moped; without the competition of smart Jewesses, their wives wore Scotch tweeds, Alpine woollens, no cosmetics...
Fanos starred at center on the Cushing squad, scoring 15 out of the 41 points. His work was ably bakred up bi his team-mates, who by means of a good passing game were able to get the ball down the floor in efficient fashion. Team-work and more accurate short shooting were chiefly responsible for the Cushing victory...