Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press would almost certainly have been more indignant than it was at his action in driving the luckless veterans out of Washington with tear gas and bayonets. If the conscientious New York Times had not last fortnight dispatched a man to investigate and report, the quiet but costly fashion in which President Roosevelt dissipated the threat of another Bonus Army would probably have escaped ail public notice...
...example, how cabinets will be formed," but they necessarily will be formed and their members will be Indians. The new Constitution also calls for provincial legislatures chosen by 14% of the adult population of British India. All such details of accouchement can be arranged in homely midwife fashion by the Director of the Bank of Scotland...
...been decreed. Fiscal measures, newly decreed, reduce the inheritance tax on farms, stiffen bankruptcy laws to protect creditors, reduce the profit permitted on contracts with the State, increase the profit tax paid by directors of large concerns, reduce the interest rates on commercial loans and generally contribute in involved fashion to the budget-balancing, despite the two added billions expenditure for public works, M. Laval has set as his goal...
...appear on a balcony. Said His Majesty: "Since I am a constitutional King, I can only advise you to negotiate with the Premier. I hope that your justifiable grievances may produce a remedy." At this the farmers good-humoredly raised a cheer for perspiring King Christian, then squatted, Gandhi-fashion, for a total of four hours...
...exact details of her fortune, wanted a marriage settlement. She gave him $25,000 a year and expenses. When he took his fiancee to lunch with Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. Oelrichs, Mrs. Belmont, they passed judgment on her, told him frankly, "We will make her the fashion. You need have no fear." But on their wedding night he dined alone, then, pale and nervous, told her that he had married her for her money, did not and never would love her, at last confessed that she was physically repulsive...