Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those Oxford professors! I will send some of our swine to burn down their Oxford!" Lawyer Thompson, duly brought to London from New York last week, declared under oath in the witness box that Dr. Hanfstaengl spoke exactly as quoted. What had wrought Putzy up to speak in this fashion, Mr. Thompson testified, was a reference to the condemnation of Nazi methods by numerous Britons, including some prominent Oxonians. At this provocation not even smelling salts could prevent Putzy from flying wrathfully off the handle. In court last week Dr. Hanfstaengl, admirably composed, declared, "Such a statement...
...dealt with. This was not a case for the house of correction. Here was an upright and respected student who was the victim of an unfortunate accident, written up in Boston's scandal mongering, anti-Harvard, publicity minded papers and dealt with in a most twisted and warped fashion. To a casual reader, it would appear that here was a modern Dillinger and not an unfortunate victim of circumstances...
...occasion I have seen a military officer, in full uniform and commission, a second lieutenant, beaten in the same fashion but without music and formality in the main corridor of the infantry gate of the great historic barracks of army headquarters of Aleppo', Northern Syria, by the direct order and in the personal presence of the Brigadier General, Ahmed Shevkey Pasha...
...Fashion shows, cooking and garden schools with any commercial connections...
When they arrived the bird had flown to the roof of a nearby undertaking establishment where he spread an iridescent tail, fan-fashion, to show his pursuers he was a peacock not a vulture. He remained there until a policeman reached the roof, then took wing, flapped his way to the Hotel Wyndham, paused until his pursuers were in roping distance, flew away once more...