Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turks called them good-humoredly "Soviet Cinderellas." recalled that they were all dressed in dark, nondescript suits of no recognizable fashion when they landed at Istanbul with their eminent Soviet husbands, chubby War Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, ferocious-whiskered Cavalry General Budenny and jovial Commissar of Education Bubnov...
...impressive. Many a reader of this collection will agree with its editor that its author "possessed his measure of faults, and was pent in by even more limitations than usually afflict the race of politicians. But he had a soul that in its simple and unpretending fashion was truly heroic, and to touch his garment is to receive virtue...
...occasional entrance into the novel of the stereotyped melodrama we have seen so often on the American screen, Mr. Gilkyson's novel would approach high quality. His prose is unflowered, simple and direct. It has the matter of fact tempo of its characters. Perhaps it is the most suitable fashion in which to achieve successful presentation of middle class people, but it is not even remotely capable of the engrossing effect of the style of Sinclair Lewis. Mr. Gilkyson has made a great potential story for Hollywood but he has sacrified quality in the attempt. He is an able writer...
...Institute was not built upon "made" land, as was the Business School nor was it completed in a hurried fashion as was necessary in the case of the Business School, in which modern engineering gave way to modern architecture in an effort to construct the plant as quickly and as cheaply as possible. Careful investigation is understood to reveal that the trouble may be laid to possible improper inspection and supervision of the contractors by the University or architectural authorities...
Then for a moment the President's eyes dwelt in kindly fashion on a family group, spry, fox-bearded Henry Morgenthau Sr., aged 77, standing with his wife, daughter-in-law and grandchildren. Old "Uncle Henry" was bursting with pride because his son was being honored even more greatly than he himself had been honored two decades before when another Democratic President had named him Ambassador to Constantinople. From happy "Uncle Henry" the presidential eye passed on and came to rest on little wizened Mr. Woodin...