Word: fashion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shoved up out of the way. Big disadvantage appears to be that at night the bed has to be moved out of the way before the toilet can be used. The roomette's door slides back into the wall and may be locked, or left open, steamship fashion, with a curtain drawn over the opening...
...military history is misleading as a result of the authors' deliberate intentions," most of the rest so stereotyped it is useless in determining what happened in any war. The confusion of battle is perpetuated because generals edit the official reports, and "word their orders in such an oracular fashion that victory, if it comes, can be traced to them, while failure, if it befalls," can be blamed on somebody else. To make sense of these bewildering official...
...into a relatively small store." Most persons who visited the sample Schulte store at Manhattan's 86th Street & Broadway were surprised. Mr. Roth had filled it with 175 items, from the Victory Band Harmonica to cocktail shakers, had arranged them neatly in good department-store fashion. Two more of the new stores will open in Manhattan before the end of the year...
...excited voice explained that a circus performer named Edward Lusein had died in Chicago leaving $16,000 and no apparent heirs. Then radio actors, MARCH-OF-TIME fashion, enacted his life and death. William Zielsdorf packed his bag for Chicago, for Edward Lusein was his uncle...
...team. In polished oratorical manner he earnestly told the boys about the advantages of keeping strict training, not smoking, and above all of staying away from the evils of alcohol. Not content with merely issuing such negative orders, he decided to start the ball rolling in positive fashion, and so announced that starting on the following day, all men, who were so inclined, were to report at his room at five o'clock; from there a daily cross country run would commence, so that everyone should be in good training when active participation began. His speech was heartily applauded...