Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood Herald called Strange Interlude "empiric." Critics thought this widely advertised trick play, though undramatic, might interest cinema audiences in a narrative type of cinema, set a new and profitable fashion...
...According to Court rumor, Princess Alary recently argued that, despite Edward of Wales' failure to revive the fashion for straw "boaters" by wearing them in South America, he could still bring the boater back by wearing it persistently in England. This His Royal Highness is now doing (TIME, July 4), but is understood to have bet Her Royal Highness that the style cannot be revived, even by himself. As is usual when bets are made in the Royal Family, the ?25 is to go to charity. Settlement is supposed to be made at the close of this year...
This increase must be taken with a grain of salt. Fashion exerts its away in academic circles as in others, and as one department has awarded honors to a larger number of men, others have followed suit. Requirements for distinction are flexible. Nevertheless, the figures are actually indicative of a well-marked trend towards higher scholarship. More time is now given to academic work. Extra-curricular activities--managership competitions, publications, music clubs, debating societies, and athletics have noted a decline in the emphasis given to them in undergraduate life. The tutorial system, the divisional examinations giving a central theme...
Little (5 ft. 2 in.) Jack Little's stunt is playing the piano in a blithe, easy fashion. Cheer dominates his programs but not so blatantly as it does most of radio's early morning offerings. He lets his fingers do most of the talking, embroidering tunes all over the keyboard, breaking rhythms, holding them steady. Like most radio headliners, his voice is so small that he has to use an amplifier when he sings on the stage. But he can put a song over in what he calls an "intimate parlor baritone," and in many a parlor...
...Epsom crowd-over 500,000-was well-pleased by the parade to the post. Orwell walked in an efficient fashion, sleek and dignified, while the other horses pranced and sidled. When the race started, Orwell, still sleek and dignified, was less efficient. He stayed in the bunch behind the leaders while first Cockpen, then Lord Derby's Portofino. then Dastur took the lead. With a furlong and a half to go, Dastur was still ahead with Miracle running second and April the Fifth third. In black & pink, Jockey Fred Lane on the Walls horse and Jockey Wragg, riding Miracle...