Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With London and Dreiser, particularly, Lynn has developed a previously unexpressed thesis. He has done so in a convincing fashion through close analysis of each novelist's lives and works. His own work thus proves increasingly effective because he chose "uncharacteristic" men with which to deal...
...University scene in 1932 when a group organized in Leverett House D-41 to form the John Reed Club. Chiefly intellectual and rather tame, the group was devoted to the study of scientific Marxism and education. The Young Communist League formed soon after in a much more militant fashion. Its monthly magazine, the Harvard Communist, was issued from an anonymous post office box in Boston. Besides featuring the current party line in its columns, the magazine took an active interest in winning converts from among the most susceptible, the underdog. It drew attention to the plight of the commuters...
...Laugh Till You Cry." The island, a between-trade-routes speck somewhere near the Caribbean, looks like paradise, but the seemingly innocent natives soon prove to be suffering from human nature. They like private property and often marry for wealth or power rather than love. In their own primitive fashion, they are as firmly entered in the 20th century rat race as a Madison Avenue adman. No fool, Salesman Rantz snows the natives under with his bag of jokes-which terrify the islanders. He makes a laughingstock of the chief and moves into his job. By the native code losers...
White Swan has not always been a leader of nurses' fashion. It started out as a housedress manufacturer, got into the uniform business in 1921 after Boston's Wm. Filene Sons Co. asked it to adapt one of its stylish house dresses into a white graduation dress for a class of Boston nurses. Soon after that, White Swan's President Leo M. Cooper picked up a 300-dozen order for similar uniforms from a Chicago department store. That opened his eyes. By talking to nurses, Cooper learned that they were tired of staid, formless garments. Says Cooper...
...result, they took more interest in their work. The president's desk was magically cleared of all the picayune problems that once piled up. He had more time for long-range planning and overall policy, and the company's sales and profits rose in gratifying fashion...