Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aggressive dictators, was respected by other countries, including Russia. The Spanish Republic did not become communist because it bought arms from communist Russia any more than the American colonies became royalist because they obtained aid from royalist France. To call the Spanish Loyalists "Reds" and "communists" is current fashion, but quite unjustifiable. In the bandying of prejudicial epithets, now in vogue, the Medical Bureau has been defined by a New England journal as "a bolshevist organization with headquarters in Moscow." Lest the credulous believe, let me, as national chairman of the Bureau, hasten to testify that it is an American...
...seen from the exhibits that the new architecture is not merely a new garb for an old framework," Bogner said. "The public is hard to convince that modern architecture is not a stylistic venture, like a new model of an automobile or a fashion show, but is the outgrowth of new demands set on buildings as a result of social changes and the technological developments...
...East, the No. 1 team last week appeared to be the University of Pittsburgh, whose backfield of Goldberg, Stebbins, Cassiano and Chickerneo, is rated one of the best of all time. For several seasons Coach Jock Sutherland has been trying to fashion an outfit that would rank with Pitt's famed undefeated eleven of 1915, on which he played. This year he thinks...
...Addison Gallery showed 19. Maurice, upright, high-collared, with silvery hair and mustaches, became so deaf that when friends called at the studio they swished newspapers under the door to catch his eye. Only his daily stroll around Washington Square interrupted his painting. "When short skirts came into fashion," Van Wyck Brooks remembers, "he spoke of the beautiful movement that women had made when, at a streetcorner, they turned round to lift up their skirts before they scurried across the street. 'That's a lost art,' he said...
This week, when she publishes Black Is My Truelove's Hair, it is plain that Author Roberts has escaped from her blind alley in brilliant fashion. Her new novel reads like a folk tale of the Kentucky countryside, depends on no archaic trappings or high-flown language for its effect, takes place in a recognizable world of village gossip, youthful lovemaking, Kentucky feuds, with characters who are farmers, truck drivers, wise widows and runaway girls. The telephone and radio have reached Miss Roberts' countryside but the people have not changed much: they are superstitious, religious, poetic, great musicians...