Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board. An able tennis player, he coached the tennis team, then mastered golf mechanically and coached that too. Those were his two closest contacts with the boys except when they appeared before him as culprits or petitioners or to receive their diplomas. Kinglike, he dressed in the height of fashion, held himself apart, aloof...
...four hours the Mahatma trudged along the dusty roads before he reached the village of Aslali, end of the first day's march. As he progressed, the host which had saluted his departure and followed him in orderly fashion for many miles gradually fell back, the cheering died away. At Aslali some 125 natives greeted him with garlands and song. The Mahatma addressed them, declared that his aide Vallabhai Patel had been arrested a week previously for intending to speak in public. Said Saint Gandhi: "Let the Government arrest me for actually doing...
...make a place for its new President. M. I. T. reorganized its executive body in thoroughgoing fashion. Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, retiring President, now becomes chairman of the executive board and corporation, Big Businesslike, as befits the foremost U. S. technical college...
...when I missed my one and forgot to come on the stage. Poor Charlie (who incidentally happens to be Mr. Charles Purcell, the Chocolate Soldier in person) was making impromptu speeches and at the same time muttering under his breath, 'where the devil's MacKenzie', in a most terrifying fashion. When I finally appeared smiling sweetly he gave me a terrible look, but that...
Antique dealers had good cause to cooperate and boost business in last week's show. A genuine work of art of any period has always a certain definite value. A work of art that is also in fashion has an additional value many times greater. Apart from the general lassitude which has gripped all luxury trades since the stock-market break, for the past year Fashion has deserted the antiquaries...