Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lazy to be a pianist, begged him to take up art. He was encouraged by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Puvis de Chav annes. He borrowed from Japanese art its use of the single line and its penchant for ornamental perversions. He dressed neatly in an ordinary fashion. He read everything. He learned quickly and forgot quickly. His black and white drawings were better than any Englishman's have ever been. He was the rage...
...practical consideration. Large on the practical horizon looms the fact that the U. S. has secured for Nicaragua a series of administrations which if they were not wanted were marked by a relative peace in which Nicaraguans were at liberty to pursue commercial activities in an orderly and prosperous fashion even if they have not done...
...fashion in men's wear was thereby established. The mark of the businessman, the sign of his dignity, had been the stiff collar. Now the semisoft collar took its place on half the necks of the U. S. It was comfortable, and wives could launder it themselves...
Take It From Me (Reginald Denny). A young man is at great pains to bankrupt his large department store, in order to rid himself of a fiancée with designs upon his money. Hence, floorwalkers go roller-skating along the aisles, a "million dollar" fashion show is wedged into the film. He loses the undesirable fiancée, almost loses the store, wins the beautiful stenographer. But this, Take It From Me, is nothing to go out of the way to encounter...
...booters consistently forced the play in aggressive fashion, but the surer passwork of the Crimson forwards brought victory. Ives, with his passing and constant pressing of the Harvard goal, and Preston, in the defense, starred for Yale, while Trevett and Danielian played best for the visitors...