Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eduardo Andrade writes a Paris letter, after the fashion of The Dial's correspondents. This, I believe, is an innovation for The Advocate
...Crimson captain played brilliantly although forced to an extra game, while his opponent in today's match disposed of his man in easy fashion. Debevoise due to his greater experience is conceded the best chance to win today if he is on the top of his game...
...confession, perhaps, is that it should be made by one who is barely off the college campus. That college athletics are beginning to does some of their glamor for the undergraduates (though not yet for the alumni) seems possible if for no other reason than that a change in fashion is about due a rising sense of boredom against so artificial and absurd and top heavy an institution. We note, for instance, an editorial in the Ohio State Candle for October in which college athletics receive a mereless keelhauling. The Nation...
...dinner conversation of the land that the play will be easily understood. These peculiar phenomena are dealt with in words of one syllable. An event in the hero's youth bites deep into his consciousness, is discovered and the poison let off in the approved modern fashion at the last...
...home who were economically beaten or who were persecuted for religious or political beliefs." New England was not full of psalm singing and blue laws but was a very decent place to live; Virginia had fifty small farmers for every plantation owner of the traditional type. In this impolite fashion, Mr. Faulkner gives a picture of colonial America which makes one think that, in view of what it came from, the United States has done miraculously well by itself...