Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed with fear a Jewish butcher named Ludwig Frohwein was hustled into court at Weisbaden last week to confess that he had butchered a steer in kosher fashion...
...grown to such threatening proportions that gendarmes arrive and escort Jones to prison. There it is assumed that he is a spy. Soon the affaire Jones becomes the question of the day. Governments rise and fall on the issue. It looks bad for Jones. In melodramatic fashion he is spirited away from the jail, held incommunicado in a mysterious chateau. He escapes, makes his way back to Paris where he gets involved in a U. S. fraternal order's parade, is discovered and arrested again. By the time his case has been finally ironed out, he is almost proud...
...roll is a long one. Choosing at random the name of Albert Wiggins of the Chase National Bank comes to mind, and then Charles Mitchell of the National City. They manipulated their funds or rather those of their depositors, with masterly insouciance and in a devil-may-care fashion that compels the admiration of the less gifted; or, shall it be admitted, the less scrupulous. Working westward, the van Sweringens and Mr. Eaton of Cleveland have lighted their little hour or two and are gone. Only a tangle of smooth tar roads and buried sewer pipes out in the hinterland...
...result of this bitterness against Japan will probably be a commercial boycott by the leading powers; Japan, desperately struggling for some sort of economic existence, cannot afford to have her markets cut off in this summary fashion; it would mean, quite simply, that she would not be able to make both ends meet. For Japan this is not merely a dispute over a lucrative trade but a veritable fight for economic life. Denied her present outlet she must expand elsewhere--which can mean only China, and inevitable collision with Russia...
...long tin shed. On its floor piles and piles of brown leaves, rows and rows of piles. Down the long rows slowly moves an auctioneer chanting numbers, numbers and more numbers, singsong fashion. Behind him trail the buyers. Every eight, ten. fifteen seconds comes the only refrain that breaks the monotony of the chant: "Sold to this company" or "Sold to that." Thus every autumn since before the Civil War the U. S. tobacco crop has gone to market. Last week, however, singing auctioneers were silenced in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina...