Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outbreak of hostilites. The part that the great broadcasting networks are to play in presenting political issues to the voting public of America, the editorial power such organizations are to have, the source and limitations of that power, are questions which must be settled now, and settled in such fashion that future controversies will not arise in times of political tension when chicanery is rife and idealism languishing at a low ebb. The importance of broadcasting in the present campaign has assumed a proportion it never before attained, but which is more likely to increase than decrease in the future...
...various South American countries have been cashing large checks drawn "to bearer" by the Soviet Legation in Montevideo. When it broke off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, it left Russia without a single embassy or legation in any South American country (TIME, Jan. 6). In rip-roaring fashion last week Russia's roly-poly Foreign Minister pitched into Uruguay's Guani and soon sent the League of Nations off into gales of laughter by reading two cablegrams sent to. him in Moscow by the former Soviet Minister to Uruguay who sat beside M. Litvinoff last week. Russia...
...charge that he has withdrawn and suffers from a distaste for life draws a spirited reply: "It is because I love life that I wish to keep it sweet . . . and all I wish for others . . . is that they should keep their lives sweet also, not after my fashion, but each man in his own way. . . . Now I am sometimes blamed for not laboring more earnestly to bring down the good of which I prate into the lives of other men. . . . Alas, their propagandas! How they have filled this world with hatred, darkness and blood! . . . I wish individuals, and races...
...inevitability of gradualness.' Our ancestors of the less cerebral 15th Century meant much the same thing, but they might say 'Little by little the cat eateth up the bacon thickle.' or 'Feather by feather the goose is plucked'. . . ." Proverbs as a literary fashion died out with the 17th Century, but still remain the spoon-fed wisdom of the unsophisticated, the crutch for halting orators, the handy rubber stamp of hack-writers cramped for time...
Commenting on the fact that Professor Carver always, in his lectures to business men, refers to capitalism as "economic voluntarism," Sinclair says: "I shall urge all of our EPICS to adopt this fashion immediately...