Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swivel-chair administrator, Assistant Secretary Young traveled 30,000 mi. last year, boarded a train only twice. Mostly he journeys in the Department of Commerce Ford NS-1 which, equipped in club-car fashion with a desk and radio headphones in the cabin, serves as his flying office and from which every detail of airway construction, maintenance, lighting and radio weather-reporting can be observed first hand. Only touch of elegance in the cabin is a brilliant maroon felt pillow with the seal of the Aeronautics Branch (a beacon over which flies the original Wright Brothers' plane) on one side...
...change in administration all this could easily be eliminated. Gallery seat tickets could be placed on sale a week or more before the concert in some such manner as are those to the French movies shown at the Geographical Building. Any men who fail to secure tickets in this fashion might obtain standing room at Sanders Theater on the night of the performance. The last concert of the year will be played on April 28. If some plan, such as that outlined above, were then carried into effect and proved successful, there is little reason why it could not become...
...Wood and Saltonstall, who have an instinct for avoiding any direct collisions, escaped but other members of the squad sustained an injury of some kind. In the second tilt, however, the Harvard players were set for the onslaught and were careful not to parade down the ice after the fashion of light rope walkers. Practically no injuries took place in the second game...
Before she left for Europe this winter, Soprano Mary Garden behaved in a fashion unusual for a concert artist. She volunteered to cut her $3,000 concert fee. "Butter & eggs are cheaper," she said brusquely to her new managers, "why not concert artists?" No foolish virgin, Mary Garden was doing of her own accord what many another artist is being forced to do. Last week with the booking season at its height it was evident that artists' fees are well on the road to deflation. A dozen music salesmen were on the road selling singers, fiddlers & pianists...
...potent Chicago Tribune. His editorial retort to his Chicago rival: "Col. Knox and his committee have now undertaken to pull what is best described as a fast one on the newspapers of the nation. . . . We understand that some papers are consenting to give their advertising space away in this fashion. This newspaper is not. . . . We don't think much of the anti-hoarding drive, anyway. It is too vague, too generalized . . . and its primary object is to make business for the banks. We don't see why we should GIVE space to the banks and SELL space...