Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certain sections of Mr. Lynch's book have recently been treated at greater length by Claude Bowers. "Hamilton and Jefferson" and "Party Battles of the Jackson Period" are both written in a colorful and dramatic fashion, enlightened by vivid portraitures of historical figures. Mr. Lynch, however, has no eye for pure dramatic effect. What he aimed at was primarily a lucid, accurate narration of events. Yet his subject is often so dramatic in itself that any efforts to make it more so might well have been abortive. Thorough documentation and adherence to fact need not deter one from finding...
This will be the eighty-fifth annual production of the Hasty Pudding Club. Particular attention is being given this year to the scenery and staging, which will be executed in more or less modernistic fashion...
...time it seemed possible that the prohibition problem would solve itself if it were administered in this fashion, but it has become obvious that liquor control of some kind is necessary. Nullification, however, can never solve the problem, because by definition, it eliminates the possibility of any regulation of the liquor traffic. Constitutional amendment, as Walter Lippmann points out, under pressure exerted by the wet states must be the eventual answer to the dilemma. When the wet party has recognized that their ultimate goal must be liquor control rather than total repeal, then they will be joined by the less...
...goal," which is the territory behind the line of the goal posts. A "touch-down" is obtained by the act of a defending player who puts his hand on the ball on the ground in his own in-goal. Besides a try, points are scored in the following fashion: a goal from try (in which case the try shall not count), five points; a goal from a free kick or penalty, three points; a dropped goal otherwise obtained, four points...
...weather permits, the courtyard will probably be decorated in suitable fashion. Each member of the house, according to present plans, may invite one or two guests. The price of the tickets is still undecided...