Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago opera season was about to begin. Prices were cut in half so that orchestra seats cost $3 instead of $6. Big singers were engaged, but at salaries adjusted to fit a careful budget. Chicago's socialites never liked the high-railed boxes lined up in cinema-house fashion at the back of the house. But in ten new boxes built in an old-fashioned semicircle downstairs, those who had the desire and the price could see and be seen at this week's opening. It was among the goldfish and the bull-fiddles in the Hub Store...
...dodderer,' 'back number.' and so on. There are too many words devoted to the expression of passing moods extraordinarily analyzed. No one should have had time or leisure to distinguish the fine facets of moods so clearly. I find loo many ingenuities for the expression of fashion distinctions in clothes, both male and female. I find too large a vocabulary -for a virile nation-devoted to distinguish every possible kind of comfort at every hour of the day and night." Most notable increase is in the number of U. S. words and phrases. "However rude or crude...
there is an occasional, accidental union among the chapters which make up novel with its "Grand Hotel" in reality the book is a of seven short stories, each admirable in themselves, full of the sincerest touches. Eleanor calls upon her full knowledge of human types, gathered in true cosmopolitan fashion out of the experiences of her own youthful life. She does exceedingly well, particularly in the more pathetic stories of Franlcin Hanssemann, the school mistress, and Madame Lenosova, the actress attempting to salvage something of value and fame out of her long existing career so that she may impress...
...full-length portrait, done with all the emphasis on unity of time and place that is currently in fashion, Counsellor at Law shows its subject against a single background, the glittering onyx and aluminum offices of Simon & Tedesco (Onslow Stevens). Playwright Elmer Rice, who adapted his own successful play, surrounded his study of Lawyer Simon with sketches of his associates and friends. Old Mrs. Simon wobbles into her son's office at odd moments, chattering in dialect. Lawyer Simon's stepchildren are nasty urchins who despise him for an illbred Jew. His secretary worships...
Although there are some who may feel that the military history of the Revolution is treated in too hasty a fashion some justification for this omission may be given to them by pointing out that the time which ordinarily would be spent on the war is used in lectures upon the political history of the Constitution forming days...