Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...limits itself to the children of veteran students, the Harvardevens outpost makes no such restrictions. Meanwhile, the Mount Auburn Street center is currently servicing 582 tots, who come in to be measured on the paper giraffes which line the walls and partake of the free lollipops in true hospital fashion...
Alabama's hulking Governor "Big Jim" Folsom hulked into Manhattan to be installed as "No. 1 Leap Year Bachelor" by the publicity-conscious Barbizon Studio of Fashion Modeling. In the course of a much-photographed kissing tour of the city, he managed to stop traffic on Fifth Avenue.* He also delivered himself of an opinion on the Marshall Plan which disclosed that he had not altogether forgotten the paternity suit against him (TIME, March 15): "When it comes a-weanin' time [those European countries] are gonna squeal. You ever weaned a baby, honey? No? You try it, honey...
...boys' school. There were no students at Avon last week. The only sign of schoolboy life was a boy named Butch, busy tacking up college pennants in a monklike cubicle in one of the dormitories, installing model airplanes, and littering up the joint after the fashion of twelve-year-olds...
...turns up by some mistake as a resident baby-sitter, and in the end he is more or less running the happily married couple and their three little boys. Having harvested something of a general education, Webb is on hand to avert every family disaster in the accepted Jeevesian fashion. Only once does his wisdom and teaching fail: that is when one of the little boys gets a bellyache, and this heartrending dialogue ensues: "Well, why don't you stand on your head like Mr. Belvedere said?" "I did, but I only threw...
Describing that memorial, Adams supplied (in his Education of Henry Adams) a thoughtful epitaph for Saint-Gaudens himself. "Numbers of people came," he wrote, "for the figure seemed to have become a tourist fashion, and all wanted to know its meaning. Most took it for a portrait statue, and the remnant were vacant-minded in the absence of a personal guide. None felt what would have been a nursery instinct to a Hindu baby or a Japanese jinricksha-runner. . . . Like all great artists, Saint-Gaudens held up the mirror and no more...