Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laura West Perelman; Courtney Burr, producer) is a glib notation on the way some U. S. citizens, who live year-round in Paris, drink, wisecrack, pose and suffer. A tall, indolent young writer (Fred Keating) vaguely wishes he could afford to marry a striding, firm-chinned Paris fashion expert with a dazzling smile (Hope Williams). He is reduced to living off commissions from Paris stores to which he steers rich U. S. girls, finally resigns himself to the idea of marrying one. With laconic bitterness Hope Williams counters by encouraging a rich New York suburbanite. Between rough sentiment, brandies, wisecracks...
...women that one meets in this center of the wild and wooly west. And of course, dual personalities are always interesting. A far cry from the hustle and bustle of Michigan Avenue is a little town in merry England where Duchess Laura lives in her own quaint fashion. As conceived by Mrs. Bellor Loundes, Dutchess Laura -- Further Days of Iter Life (Longmans, Green, $2.00) is a real study of the nobler class...
Mathematics is dull and hard. Logic is dull and relatively easy. A little concentration before April Hours and finals will bring the average student through safely and without too much trouble. The person who enjoys having his head stuffed with unique formulas which in some magic fashion tie themselves up with simplified and inverted and mangled sentences may gloat over the course. For the average person the April Moon will compete heavily with logic for interest. Application is apt to bring an A; indifference is apt (for the sake of circumlocution) to bring trouble...
...power unto himself, the second question will appear wholly gratuitous. But to the remaining minority the query will have its point. Even though the wage cutting scheme be inferior to the price-raising, alternative, II Duce might infinitely prefer to slash at the defenceless proletariat in the usual fashion rather than tread so heavily on the toes of his fixed-income supporters. Even though wage-cutting, as R. G. Hawtrey has pointed out from his eyrie in the Bank of England may not prove sufficient to increase exports to any appreciable degree in a world of incredible tariff walls...
...born of Jewry but out of a fight against it." On the other hand he was not ready to paganize Protestantism, seemed to wish to straddle that issue. "We cannot be a conglomeration of Christians and Nordic pagans," he declared. "We must learn to view Christ in the German fashion," This fashion the Reichsbischof did not define. It vibrated last week between non-Nazi and Nazi overemphasis respectively on the passive concept of Gentle Jesus and the active concept of an Heroic Christ. Reichsbischof Müller vibrated too. First he appointed three good Nazis to his new "Spiritual Cabinet...