Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note was a scorcher, a strangler, but written in that backhand fashion called "the language of diplomacy.''* On its face it merely informed M. Briand that Italy would consider it a friendly act if France should sign no agreement or treaty at London to which Italy was not a party. This meant, of course, that Italy would consider it an unfriendly act on the part of France if she should sign a four-power treaty with the U. S., Britain and Japan or any one of 25 tentative special Anglo-French "security agreements" (TIME, April 7), drafts of which were...
Three days before, Messieurs les Deputes had started to talk about lace and automobiles. French lacemakers have had a hard time, of it for the past five or six years. Fashion has shunned their stuffs. Last Spring with the return of long skirts and softer, more feminine lines, lace came back. French lacemakers rejoiced. But their hopes were dashed by the publication fortnight ago of the new U. S. tariff. Lace, embroideries and tulle, depending on quality, are saddled with a duty of from...
...soldier fashion the President picked an admirable but not outstanding personage, Dr. Heinrich Bruning, bachelor, scholar, onetime machine gunner (Iron Cross and wounds), who just three months ago forged up from a quite dim obscurity in the Catholic Centre Party to become its leader...
Asked how he dared ring bells in such a fashion, Guido Francveschini jumped up, explained that his arms had grown tired. Said he: "I really don't know why I am ringing the bells. No one seems to understand me. I am a devout man and believe in God. Bells were made to ring-to ring forever. When I was a child it used to make me very happy to hear the bells ringing on Sunday...
...pace and on the plane thus set by Critic Fadiman, USA proceeded to present in rapid, sure-fire fashion, a mixture of the nation's cultural foibles and virtues. Readers had no difficulty guessing which material was placed by the editors in which category...