Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashion of life did not dawdle behind his ambition. One could not receive congressmen or even mayors, bought and paid for, in a flat. D. C. Stephenson built a formidable house at Irvington. Decorators from Indianapolis did what they could for him; he sent to New York for clothes and a few antiques. His taste ran to the oriental. Quite often now, behind the big yellow windows of his ballroom, saxophones giggled and clucked all night and limousines drove away in the early morning with the blinds pulled down. Odd callers were always waiting in his library, men of dignity...
...Eliot Norton, few whom the chair is named "Professor Norton had the spark of true inspiration." He declared, "I had the pleasure of meeting him, distinguished and courteous with a taste that was classical to an exquisite degree. He had a love for things that did not follow the fashion. It is most fitting that his memory should be honored in the gift dedicated to the attempt to bring home to others the eternal beauty upon which his own eyes were always fixed...
...politics . . . most men and women," said Professor W. B. Munro in a recent article, "inherit their party affiliations.' Nor, it must be granted, does this hold in politics alone. Even the enlightened twentieth century, relegating to the cob-webs of antiquity this year what was the latest fashion the year before, does much as its fathers have done...
Washington and Lee brought a smart, courageous eleven to the Palmer Stadium and outplayed the Tigers in handy fashion. The Orange and Black started well, when Williams dashed 60 yards through the entire visiting team, to score a touchdown after eleven dodging and straight-arming had taken, him, running alone, past the last three of his foes. Washington and Lee squared matters with Williams in the third period, when Tips, visiting guard, scooped up a kick that the Princeton back had fumbled, and racod 25 yards for the score...
...interview with the CRIMSON yesterday; "Boys' clubs are not so troublesome to manage as is generally believed, if a few definite principles on running games are observed. A supervisor should be persistent in providing a varied program at each gathering of his club. If this presented in a regular fashion, no disorder need be anticipated...