Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime Sultan's silver salver and puffed cigarets made for the occasion by the Turkish Tobacco Monopoly which had stamped on each the Persian Royal Arms. Meanwhile spry Turks in the sleek-tailed, Frenchified dress suits affected by President Kemal one-stepped and black-bottomed in a fashion to make the King of Kings blink. Stoutly, Persian courtiers insisted to their jewel-bedecked Turkish partners, on whose toes they had a tendency to tread, that "His Majesty is of ancient lineage, the noblest in Mazanderan...
...mittee Chamber, directly under his bed room. Drawing a deep breath for the cataract of words he was about to utter, Dr. Schacht cried: "Now that our colonies which were attaining before the War to increasing importance as sources of raw materials have been taken away in a fashion that practically excludes Germany as an exporter to these colonies, now that our major competitors have sought by voluntarily devaluing their currencies to force Germany not only out of their own markets but out of the world markets, now that through increased tariffs and import control German exports have become steadily...
...Hollywood, Miss Sullavan follows the current fashion for shyness. She keeps an official residence with a secretary to answer telephone calls, lives in a small house with Lisbeth, uses no makeup, dresses in moccasins, old sweater & trousers. She swims 30 times up & down her pool every morning, 30 more times every evening, attends no Hollywood parties even when they are given by Universal's Carl Laemmle Jr. Stubborn about her own affairs, she replies to studio requests to have a crooked tooth in the left side of her mouth straightened by saying she prefers it crooked. Studio officials last...
Concerning "Catherine the Great" the old problem of the relation of history and the historical drama arises. Although in "Henry VIII" the scholar complained that political significance was abandoned for the more intimate personal relationships of the great, the personalities of the present film are presented in a fashion that ably combines the human interest with the political. But just as Maxwell Anderson recently gave a more virtuous character to the heroine of his "Mary of Scotland" than history allows, so has Elizabeth Bergnor's Catherine been blessed with an unbelievable holiness of purpose, that is inconsistent with even...
...loan and asked, in essence, Who holds the bag? Obviously not Skoda; it had paid a dividend of 28 1/2 per cent in 1930, with never a recession in its steady year-by-year increases. He went further: he traced from the early days of the century the curious fashion in which French governmental loans insisted on relating themselves to Schneider Creusot orders. Throughout these years France had made loans to Mexico, Greece, Japan, Russia, Spain, Italy, Rumania, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Turkey, and every one of these countries had., thereupon placed armament orders with Schelder-Creusot. The last two countries...