Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visited the house before but always wearing statistical spectacles, a cashier's eyeshade, a warehouse apron or the plain smock of a trade. This time, for the first time, she came in as fine a dress as ever Publishing wore to wait on the Arts, Travel, Sport, Fashion or Society. And this time she spoke a cosmopolitan language instead of industrial jargon, commercial slang, financial smalltalk. This time her name was FORTUNE, a $1-the-copy, $10-the-year monthly magazine published by TIME...
...first cover is a twelve-spoked wheel of the Zodiac, spun slowly against a golden sky by a shapely Goddess of Plenty. The management promised a different cover design in similar vein each month. Among the footnotes (relegated to the last pages after the scholar's fashion) it was told that Thomas Maitland Cleland, designer and typographer, executed the first cover and is the new handmaiden's important adjunct, Art Editor...
...those usual in metropolitan office buildings, the University did not feel called upon to meet this scale and met the demands of the board in somewhat startling manner of enclosing an honorable discharge with the salary checks of the women involved. Eleven women were laid off in this fashion in December, nine others having met a similar fate the preceeding month...
Bernard Shaw is quoted as saying that the time has come to raze both Oxford and Cambridge to the ground. Shaw has said a great many foolish things in the past, but here is a case where I find myself in hearty agreement with his views. The fashion which Princeton, in common with many large eastern universities, has set in recent years of sending over large hordes of students, immediately after graduation, either to Oxford or Cambridge, for the purpose of acquiring an extra coat of varnish whereby to dazzle the yokels back in the sticks, has resulted, it seems...
...feeding of the students a real problem. Possibly the authorities felt that it was a condition which was confronting them as well as a theory, and the quadrangle plan may have been accepted no less as a practical solution worth trying than as a theoretical ideal of the fashion in which college life ought to be organized...