Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into a theater worthy of Harvard's jubilee, there was an amount of detail and protocol that can scarcely be imagined. On an occasion when correctness must be the First Commandment there was a discouraging lack of precedents to follow. Harvard had never before played host in such lavish fashion, and the rules had to be made up as the game went along. It is certain that Mr. Greene on several occasions must have longed to sit down and write a letter beginning, "Dear Emily Post...
...three able books her autobiography, Beyond the Game, is last and best. She was taught to ride to hounds by Henrietta Bingham, daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. She achieved the goal of all young female notables by establishing a fashion in clothes. This was when Bunny Austin advised her to play tennis in shorts and she did so in the presence of Queen Mary at Wimbledon in 1934. Her shorts, more becoming than the Wills eyeshade and longer than those worn by most girl tennists, were made...
...Governor feels. ... Up to the time that Mr. Hearst made his historic visit to Topeka, Governor Landon was an ardent New Dealer. Apparently a Hearst silencer had been applied to him. How otherwise explain the Republican candidate's elocutionary efforts? He may 'condemn' in conventional fashion, he may 'view with alarm,' but this seems to be the limit beyond which he is not permitted to go. If he is a Trilby, who, except William Randolph Hearst, can be the Svengali...
Adorned with able comics (Patsy Kelly, Ted Healy, Gregory Ratoff), full of good tunes (Love Will Tell, You Turned the Tables on Me, When Did You Leave Heaven), Sing Baby Sing deserts the polite little plots which are the current fashion in screen musicals, originates its own form. It is a combination of hilarious farce and bigtime revue...
...Honolulu and he was working in Hollywood. They had a flirtation. ... I cannot see any terrible harm in that. Is it unusual for a husband to flirt with an actress? We have been married 20 years. We are adults, leading our own lives in adult fashion...