Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard of the great migration to the banks of the Potomac began to quiz the powers that be as to those who were to deliver the real legal information. After much hunting about a few wringers were finally brought in who could give the courses in the required fashion, but left the poor struggling law students coming to drink the chalices of learning at the "world's greatest" rather against this new system of government which feels it necessary to take away the men who were hired, it was said, to teach them...
...into authorship. At Oxford he read history, dabbled in art. Alec Waugh had made a precocious splash with The Loom of Youth (1917); Evelyn obliterated the ripples with Decline & Fall. Now at 31, one of the smartest of London's smart young literary men, he has followed the fashion of his set by 1) getting a divorce. 2) joining the Roman Catholic Church. 3) traveling widely in unlikely places...
Walls and tables were choked with silver rings, pewter ash trays, fashion sketches, electrical equipment, straw hats, parchment lamp shades, gingham dresses. Demonstration classes in French, stenography, music appreciation, beauty culture, etiquette and Budgeting the Family Income chattered and squirmed in the centre of each floor. Behind exhibits and pupils lay the stories of some 75,000 men and wo- men stranded by Depression and floated off poverty, despair or boredom by a movement which has become one of the most significant phenomena of the past decade...
Ably abetted by John Murray Anderson and no less than seven costume designers, Albert Johnson has set the show in superb fashion. The first crack out of the Johnson paint box is a charming mechanical clock revolving in centre stage. Two automata strike at bells while other mummers, masked and mounted on wooden disks like toy soldiers, circle past. With this pantomime of musical revue, Life Begins at 8:40 gets off to a good start at about...
...gangsters in the cinema were wicked and incorrigible. They beat their women, shot policemen, smuggled rum and ended their careers at the end of a rope or in the gutter. Due to the combined efforts of the Hays organization and Damon Runyon, whose stories have set a new screen fashion, this is no longer true. Lately cinema racketeers have been gentlemen, masquerading sheepishly in wolves' clothes. In Lady for a Day, Little Miss Marker and Midnight Alibi, the heroes were mollycoddle outlaws whose better natures were aroused by old ladies or a glimpse of Shirley Temple. In Hide-Out, Lucky...