Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate sitting in their chairs long enough to do something about it. Last month the Congress staged a stand-up strike over patronage, had to be bullied and cajoled back into the White Capitol. Last week Cuba's 36 Senators had stopped work to squabble in heated Cuban fashion over the strange behavior of Senate President Arturo Illas Hourruitinier...
...Galahad (Warner). Prizefight pictures, once a staple product of the cinema industry, have been out of fashion since The Prizefighter and the Lady. First of its sort since the resounding failure of that venture in 1933. Kid Galahad, adapted from a realistic Saturday Evening Post story by Francis Wallace, improves on the old formula by concerning itself less with the ring prowess of its hero, Ward Guisenberry (Wayne Morris) than with the grimy background of the fight industry as exemplified by his manager, Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson). Nicknamed Kid Galahad when, as an unsophisticated bellhop, he knocks...
Contrary to the rumors, Freshmen are not excused from Saturday's classes, double cuts before a holiday being recorded as such in the usual fashion. A student whose standing is satisfactory to date will not be automatically placed on probation if he cuts a final class, but all meetings in which tests are to be given must be attended...
...said Sayward, "but this year it has been heavier than before." There was some evident that the same man had been responsible for more than this one offence. The forging was described as extremely careless in this case, although in the past it has been done in such a fashion as to defy detection...
...clerks tally the purchases, take in the money. Then the baskets are placed on conveyor belts, which carry them to the entrance. There the goods are sacked, carried to the customers' cars by red-capped attendants -Trading Post's only concession to service. President Sowles's "Fashion Avenue'' is strategically located in the area between the cash registers and the entrance, so that the customers have to stroll by the five little shops to get out-change in their pockets and their hands freed of previous purchases by the conveyor belt...