Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three-hour test roamed the fields of science, literature, economics, English, history, in unusual fashion. Examinees were asked not to display their knowledge but to draw deductions from sets of given facts. In a test of their literary judgment, for example, they were given a poem to interpret, Wallace Stevens' Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock...
...Eating Soup, are done in a subdued yet colorful manner with an unmistakable but not grating sense of strength and certainty. In this specific work, the figure of the child is rather grotesque and boldly realistic. It is valuable as art because it portrays solidity and bluntness in a fashion that is reasonable and interesting...
...editors, but foreign Governments also contribute. During the Ethiopian crisis of 1935 the Italian Government bought a few editorial pages. The way some prominent Paris newspapers have handled their German "news" recently suggests that slush funds from the Third Reich are also being passed around. In pot & kettle fashion, Leftist editors have cried that the Rightist press lived on funds from Germany and Italy, while Rightist editors pictured the Leftist press getting gold from Moscow...
...fashion eight years ago offered a memorial (oblique hats) to France's late ex-Empress Eugenie, Vogue last week proposed a similar memorial to Britain's late slim, beauteous, Danish-born Queen Alexandra, wife of Edward VII. Vogue's memorial: wasp waists, a fitting accompaniment to upswept hair, shirtwaists, petticoats. Said Vogue: "Now that we are going to wear 'Queen Alexandra' dresses . . . what shall we do about figures? We'll want waists a little smaller. We'll want bosoms a little more ample. We'll want hips a little more in evidence...
...Fashion, always a "silly and senseless dame," said Boston's 79-year-old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, is "even more silly and more senseless than ever. . . . With our Blessed Lady, Mary, the Mother of Christ, ever before their eyes as the model of Christian womanhood, how is it . . . that [Catholic women] venture to enter even the portals of the temple of God clothed in the silliest raiment of those who are dedicated to the temple of shame...