Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editors are divulging in their very first issue all kinds of hot Cantabrigian fashion tips for the benefit of their nation-wide audience. "From Harvard we find a continued preference for conservatism," they proclaim...
...concluding fashion note states that "Harvard men wear horizontally and vertically striped knitted and foulard ties and bows in restrained patterns." The source of all this revealing data is not disclosed...
...Russia there is little room for such ideologically unorthodox characters as Baba-Yaga. Since Lenin, writers of the new Soviet skazki have been instructed to fashion their fairy tales as "pictures of the Socialist way of life."* But Soviet writers cannot always follow Soviet Socialism. In Moscow last week Baba-Yaga might have chuckled a hearty witch's chuckle. Two of her Socialist successors-Bread Crumb and Gunpowder Crumb-were being boiled...
...People are living and thinking in standardized fashion. Military censors observed during the war that all American soldiers wrote the same letters. . . . The effect of many well-meant reforms in education during the first half of the century has been to magnify the importance of social welfare and to minimize that of the individual...
Circulating Millinery. In Paris, Madame la Comtesse Monique de la Moissonière launched a new fashion scheme: a "circulating library" for hats. From her stock of 100, women can rent the latest and zaniest at 500 francs for 24 hours (special offer: twelve hats a month for 3,000 francs). Said the countess: "This is my version of American mass production...