Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been clearly defined as yet, but as Casper, in an exclusive interview at the Ritz Bar, said last night, "Our Plans are young yet; what we want is time to work out the broad general principles of this thing, before we get the stuff ready in detailed fashion. However, we must act NOW, or a Model N.R.A. will beat...
From the intellectual standpoint, success in the field depends on ability to think out certain problems in a fashion that puts a premium on general knowledge and imagination. A few individuals are able to get along with remarkably little work. Others try to do the same; some of these are really interested, but without the knack of "thinking geographically". The rest are just loafers looking for snap courses. Because only upperclassmen are regularly admitted to Geography 1, instructors must form their decisions upon the abilities of would-be concentrators without having any idea of their performance in course-work. When...
Pale, stooped Georgio de Chirico is one of the best known surrealistic painters of the School of Paris. Artist de Chirico is a realist as well as a surrealist. He ekes out his income with commissions for fashion illustrations, magazine covers. Art-lovers who flocked to a fancy Fifth Avenue address last week to see de Chirico's latest work, found themselves in a tailor shop...
Benno Scheiner fancies himself an artist as well as an artist in his line. He, too, once dreamed of being a painter, learned to satisfy his aspirations by making his own fashion drawings, as some of the great Paris couturiers do. Sons and grandsons of Viennese hofschneider (court tailors), the current Scheiners expanded their Vienna business, opened branches in Berlin, Amsterdam, Antwerp. It is their boast that many a London blood travels all the way to Antwerp to have his trousers fitted by either Benno, Leo, Marco or Emil. Because some U. S. tycoons do likewise the Scheiners decided...
...immediate purpose of the amendment is clearly to give potency to the previous regulation, which expressed the same general policy, but in such a fashion that enforcement was impossible. The gist of both readings is that any scholarship man who violates the ruling will be deprived of his honor or stipend, as the case may be. The important changes are these: the peddling of notes has been prohibited for the whole year round, instead of just before examinations; direct mention has been made of the tutoring schools, to make it clear just what sort of traffic is aimed...