Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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GLOBE THEATRE.-"The Glass of Fashion." Performance...
...orchestra sang the first verse of Luther's grand triumphal hymn. a few minutes were now spent in conversation and drinking of beer, and than the Commander made a short speech appropriate to the occasion and called for the health of the Emperon. This was drunk in most approved fashion and a verse of the National Anthem sung. The manner of toasting is worthy of description. Everyone rises, the Commander calls, "One, two, three, drink." Then, "one, two, three," and the bottoms of the glasses are rattled upon the table producing a most peculiar effect. Again is called...
...docking the "hurrah" of its first syllable, and making the syllables, "rah, rah, rah" do duty in the guise of "three cheers," it is now impossible to ascertain. The two colleges, however, seem jointly responsible for spreading a depraved taste for "rah" among other colleges and in setting the fashion of distinctive college cheers. Doubtless Yale and Harvard have done much to expand the chests and cultivate the biceps of American youth, but these benefits have been dearly purchased at the price of the invention of the exasperating "rah, rah, rah" which is now heard wherever two or three college...
...only from all parts of Egypt, but from all over the Orient, and the number in constant attendance ranges from 10,000 to 12,000. For over 900 years this institution has kept the even tenor of its way in this same old mosque, in the same old fashion of teaching and learning, with the same old text-books, and if not with the same old instructors, at least under cover of their old prophetic mantle of blind intolerance. The president of the university is elected by the sheiks of the mosque, who are extremely jealous of their rights...
...cadences. His voice is pleasing and remarkably even, without any great power. The Dvorak Symphony offers a large field for criticism. Still we do not see the obscurity so much complained of, the themes are distinct and well developed and at times intertwine to great advantage in the modern fashion invented by Wagner. Gounod's Entr'acte (La Colombe) is remarkably expressive of the subject with its sweetness and freedom of modulation. The Hungarian Rhapsody presents a fine idealization of Hungarian music with its fantastic cadences and its richly colored accompaniments...