Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter's double-barreled feat was not new. Conductors sat at harpsichords before they ever thought of standing up in front of their orchestras, waving the first stout batons. In just such a fashion big, bewigged Handel made music for the Londoners of King George I. In the U. S. Karl Muck and Willem Mengelberg have conducted from keyboards...
...electrician & founder of General Electric Co., Dr. Elihu Thomson, 78, inventor of electric welding and more than 700 other patented ideas, onetime acting president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an unusually practical man, last week proposed to decoy male mosquitoes to a multitudinous death. The idea developed in this fashion...
...cock-fighting, sword-thrusting, chin-chucking days are gone never to return. A hard-breathed "gadsblood" man will never heighten the tension of mortal conflict more. Beroic gestures are out of fashion and with them have gone the verbal trappings which were one of the chief compensations for the inadequate plumbing fixtures of the middle ages. The radio and the movie have finished the levelling process of democracy. The human sea of derbied heads stretches out far into the middle west with no crown or crested helm to arrest the eye. Can all romance have gone forever? In his soul...
Skating in a leisurely fashion yesterday afternoon the Harvard Jayvees spent the three periods of their game with Andover in piling up their victory of 11 to 0, quite untroubled by the efforts of the schoolboys...
...that he became a professional sprinter. He left a clerk's job in 1919 when he decided to become a writer, went into the woods to live and think. His first book of stories, Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, cocked many a critical eye at him in friendly fashion. Poet fundamentally, he makes little money, most of that by his stories. Best model for good writing, he thinks, is folk tales. Other books: Fishmonger's Fiddle, Silver Circus; (verse:) Hips and Haws, Collected Poems...