Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gentility and cultivation have made him a social favorite and an incessant host to visiting notables. His name appears on Chinese merchandise as suggestive of quality. He paints, gardens, studies biology, boxes in the Chinese fashion, likes to tinker with machinery. He has written some 15% of the 400 plays in his repertoire, and his collection of books on Chinese drama, art and music is noteworthy. Among those who have admired his acting are Fritz Kreisler, Somerset Maugham, the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden, Bertrand Russell. Tumultuously has he been received in Japan...
Until that far-distant time, however, "Roxy" amuses himself with arranging tremendous stage-performances, augmenting the size of his orchestra, drilling his ushers in Marine fashion, giving great "Roxy" parties for children, and mouthing happily over the radio. Indeed, energetic and young-appearing at 47, never until last week's confession would one have thought that "Roxy" walks under the shadow he described so feelingly, interrupted only by baiting from unsympathetic stockholders...
...wouldn't want to restore the old condition but I do believe we could frame and fashion a new system of control that would not be Prohibition and would make the law enforceable and practical. What a sorry state this country is in today! Revenues have fallen off. Crimes have multiplied. We are under the reign of the bludgeon and of force. The very church, its bishops and ministers, cheer all sorts of pain and shootings; it applauds force. Have we lost the right of conscience? Are we slaves? We need emancipation ! . . . The Lord could have destroyed all alcohol...
...name that looks hard but is actually easy to pronounce. The trick is to take one's time and roll it out slowly, Russian fashion, at full, length: "Josef Vis-sur-ee-ú-nun-vich Zoogoash...
...collaborated. Their first play (Esgrima y amor) was given in Seville when Serafin was 16. The tradition of fecundity commonly attached to Spanish dramatists, largely due to the labors of the prodigious Lope Felix de Vega (1562-1635) who wrote 520 plays, has been upheld in a more credible fashion by the Quinteros. Between 1897 and 1912 they wrote more than 80 of their sly, kindly, classically re strained dramas. Among the most popu lar: El Patio, Las Flares, El genio alegre, Malvaloca...