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Word: fashion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested in traveling to Yale in this fashion may obtain prices and make reservations by calling the Harvard Club of Boston at KENmore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Club Offers Luxury Travel to New Haven Game | 11/12/1936 | See Source »

...verbal sanction of one William Shakespeare who assures us that the entire production is under his personal supervision. Before very long Shylock, bursting in upon Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is required to account for his presence in "Hamlet". Later there is depicted a feud in the best Montague-Capulet fashion, between John Gielgud and Leslie Howard, each of whom gives Beatrile Lillie a front seat ticket for the other's performance, each knowing that the performance will prove only a minor side-show to that amiable woman's extraordinary volubility. But Mr. Shakespeare is soon retired to an honorary presidency...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 11/12/1936 | See Source »

...better than silk and "he had often thought" that if he had a harem he would dress his women in linen. The first published version of the Journal lets it go at that, with Boswell's comment that it was odd to hear Dr. Johnson discoursing in this fashion. But the manuscript shows that the situation was more painful. In the course of the talk about harems, Johnson said playfully that Boswell would make a good eunuch. But when Boswell replied in a similar spirit, Johnson got angry-"though he treats his friends with uncommon freedom, he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boswell in Full | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

This evening every up-to-date newspaper in the land has made arrangements to serve their readers in some fashion as that which the CRIMSON will employ. Some only use green lights, some use red lights, some employ the swinging counter-clockwise, north-and-south motion, while others simply use chalk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Election Returns to Be Flashed From Bell-Tower of Old Appleton Chapel in Revolutionary Fashion | 11/3/1936 | See Source »

...Proclamation." Unfurled were two huge Rexist flags showing "the Black Crown of Christ the King" on a red field. The crowd roared "Rex will conquer! Long live Degrelle!" At this Premier van Zeeland's cavalry charged out of side streets, slashing with their sabres in the reckless fashion of Romanov Cossacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Rexist Rashness | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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