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Word: fashion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practically nothing, by paying RKO $80,000 for a batch of shelved stories which also turned out to include its current hit, The Awful Truth. As an adapter, Screenwriter Stewart was an obvious, as well as fortunate, selection. One of Playwright Barry's best friends, he started a fashion since copied by Critic Alexander Woollcott, Playwright George S. Kaufman and Novelist John O'Hara by acting in the stage production of Holiday. In this version, as in the first cinema edition, the Stewart role-that of the hero's amiably light-headed crony-is played with whimsicality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Engaged. Gloria Braggiotti, fashion columnist (sister of Pianist Mario Braggiotti, Actor Stiano Braggiotti, Socialite Mrs. John Davis Lodge); to Emlen Pope Etting, painter; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...much like filing the parts of a jig-saw puzzle to make them fit. If such were the case, Mr. Nash's poems would not present an understandable picture of what he primarily intended to say; but actually he is highly successful in presenting his ideas in a humorous fashion. Outside of one or two of the strange case-histories, which degenerate into vehicles for a pet pun inserted at the end, Mr. Nash has written an excellent, laughable book of lyrical doggerel...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: The Bookshelf | 6/10/1938 | See Source »

...special Faculty Committee on the terminating appointments given last year to Dr. Walsh and Dr. Sweezy. Looking, however, at certain aspects of this Report from the undergraduate point of view, we are convinced that both the Committee and President Conant, each to a different extent and in different fashion, erred in regard to the recommendation for reappointment of these two men by the Department of Economics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPILT MILK | 6/2/1938 | See Source »

...twelve children. Eight of those, ranging from 18 to two years of age, were living. She could not tell whether the father of her latest pair was one Luis Ersing, 24. or one Lanzarin Timoteo, 26, both jobless Spaniards. Luis' mother had been minding the babies after a fashion since they were born last month. And somebody had named them José de Jesus and Ana Maria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fathers and Twins | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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