Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Observance Society. He frankly "disapproves of all Papists" and particularly of the Pope. There are, in his opinion, ecclesiastically dangerous radicals among the bishops and archbishops of the Church of England, and, when they led a great battle in Parliament to "reform" the Prayer Book in highfalutin fashion, it was the Low Church, mobilized and led politically by Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, which mightily defeated the High Churchmen and made sure that the Prayer Book shall remain unchanged for many, many years (TIME...
Last week the most urban of all U. S. industries lifted its eyes from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue to the U. S. District Court in Boston and settled familiarly into a contentious mood. On one side was the Fashion Originators' Guild of America, founded three years ago to stamp out style piracy and now the principal prop of highgrade dressmaking. On the other side was Wm. Filene's Sons Co., famed Boston department store, which had brought suit charging conspiracy in restraint of trade. Back of Filene's stood Associated Merchandising Corp., largest co-operative buying...
...fight this style piracy the Fashion Originators' Guild was started in 1933. At first limited to twelve leading dress houses, the Guild established a bureau for the registration of designs and invited other manufacturers to join. By the end of 1933 it had about 60 members and had received from 4,000 retailers "declarations of cooperation" by which the retailers agreed not to buy or sell any dresses known to be copies of styles originated by Guild members...
...freedom. And so would we here at Pennsylvania. But we feel that we have little to fear. We can make no comparison between the intelligence of a New England legislature and our own, but we would hesitate to believe that Pennsylvania's assembly would act in such a stupid fashion. Daily Pennsylvanian...
...romance that can be fearfully strengthened overnight by the evil genius of war hysteria, a weakness that no amount of premeditated cynicism seems able to control. And there are those, ready for war because they do not fight, who will take The Veterans of Future Wars in typical utilitarian fashion at face value...