Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...section man has been likewise refused, a demand justified by the great abundance of rudimentary efforts at harmonizing to be examined every week. The graduate courses must also shrink in number and in volume, because the music department men have extended themselves this year in so impossible a fashion that their labor cannot be sustained...
...plot are Jacques Dumesnil, who simpers and sneers as the no-good duke in the grand old style, and Christiane Delyne, the bourgeols Miss who captures the duke from the stately lady, and then tries to get her steel man too, and who ogles and languishes in the voluptuous fashion burlesqued by Miss West. But Leon Belieres endears himself to a new audience as the roly-poly chocolate-maker, the ambitious father of the duke-catcher, whose garrulity and faux pas are always impairing his daughter's chances...
...vigorously shook her gorgeous blonde head, exclaiming "No, not at all." There was a story behind that, we felt sure, but before we could inquire further she was whisked away from the dressing table on which we were sitting, and hurried through the packed throng outside, Garbo-fashion...
...these rapturous radicals last week gentle, refined, soft-spoken Lev Davidovich Bronstein said, in the fatherly fashion of an old maestro soothing impatient pupils who want to play the violin before they know how, that he wants to go to New York...
...very pleasant sentimental comedy, and, after all, we must judge it from that angle. The cast, though not phenomenal by any means, does a definitely satisfactory job. Robert Conness as the beefy-complexioned country gentleman, Mr. Bennet, handles his three twittering daughters and their erratic mother in the masterful fashion of a staid old Englishman. His wife, played by Molly Pearson, is the perfect simple-minded, scheming mother whose sole aim in life is to see her daughters married off before it's "too late". Lowell Gilmore epitomizes the title, "Pride and Prejudice", in his role of the tremendously aloof...