Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statesmen could express and which he best expressed in a speech last year at Princeton : "There is nothing, apart from the ever-important cultivation of the spiritual values, which your country and my country needs so much as the cultivation of esthetic values; not in the foolish and pretentious fashion of the esthetes of the Victorian era but in the straightforward manly fashion of many of the great artists of the Renaissance period. . . . Unfortunately I have never learned any handicraft but I hope to make good this defect when I retire to become an enthusiastic if perhaps a belated bookbinder...
...attempts to make scenarios out of Conrad's books. The adventurous and fantastic shell of the story has been preserved; the thought that burned behind Conrad's carved phrases and balanced sentences like light behind a stained glass window, making the queer figures in the glass live after a fashion, is gone. Nancy Carroll is a girl who plays the violin and sings in Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra in a South Sea island hotel run by a man named Schomberg. Richard Arlen helps 'her to escape from disgusting fates imminent for her on every side. The sordid background Conrad...
Those in favor of discarding the amateur rules argue that such a move would make for a spectacular, open game, more interesting to players and spectators alike. Minute off sides and insignificant kicks frequently halt play in a fashion not only boring to the spectators but to the players themselves, they say. There's also no clause in the amateur code to prevent packing the defense, a practice which produces dull hockey, witness the performance of Marquette not so long ago. All of that is certainly true and sound enough, but there's something to be said on the other...
...give credit to neither stock manipulations nor managerial ability. His special genius is in organization. Speaking in exact, ministerial tones, casting penetrating looks from his blue eyes, he wields great power when it comes to exhorting ancient industrial rivals to quell their jealousies and lock their arms in Christian fashion before fighting the fight for bigger profits...
...suggests a vagabondage to more happy hunting grounds than a Cambridge in the labors of a pre-mature spring slush. That's probably half the trouble with a vagabond's life; a little taste here and a sip there soon makes the world go round in such an interesting fashion that it is a triffe difficult to stay safely put in any particular spot...