Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major saw Bolshevism at its worst and rawest. Recently he founded Norway's Nazi Party, went storming up & down the land in Hitler fashion "To save Norway from our Bolsheviks!" (i. e. Laborites...
Last week Hindu Shankar was back in New York dancing with every one of his slippery muscles. Again he had with him Simkie. a Frenchwoman almost as sinuous as himself, and nine Hindu musicians who sit tailor-fashion on the floor, tap swiftly and intricately on odd-shaped drums, thrum delicately on queer little fat-necked Hindu guitars. This week Shankar starts out on a tour which will take him to New England, then through the Midwest to the Pacific Coast, back through the South. In all he will give 85 performances, this season's record number...
...loftily informed that that is a matter which can be dealt with only after he comes back, when his case will be considered. Upon his return he is somewhat astounded to find his credits unmercifully cut and all his grades lowered by one mark. This is the subtle fashion in which the University lets it be known that it does not approve of Harvard men spending a year in a foreign school...
...chorus. Frank is regular, procures a position for the dear 'girl in Texas Kaley's night club and forgets her until he sees her in action: she is too wonderful so the hard boiled gangster loses his grim equanimity and his heart in a gentlemanly fashion. Before niches have found their indisputable positions under Joan's eyelashes, she is the headliner in the Kaley Night Club having displaced Frances Williams...
...inflamed by the ardor of a great cause. Mr. G. K. Chesterton points out that large playing blocks are devised not to startle children, but to put them at their ease; headlines modelled in their likeness do not quicken mental inertia, but play upon it in vast and obvious fashion. By all means let us have sensational journalism; sensational as the Irish journalism of Victoria's time was sensational, for by its aid we may stimulate the populace, if not to thought, at least to passion. But the tedious recital of detail, in type however large, can only distract...