Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acting from his first play "Strange Gentleman!", which was produced at the St. James Theatre in London in 1836, until he died while in the middle of his novel. "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." Many of the posters are wood-cuts while others are printed in much the same fashion as those of today. Several of the posters attempt to give the story of the play by means of a series of pictures giving scenes from the play. Inasmuch as nearly all of Dickens' novels were dramatized and the number of plays that he wrote was large, the exhibition...
...President Coolidge graduated from good old Siwash out on the plains where men begin to be men, he might be pardoned for a certain old fashioned prejudice at Eastern innovations. But being a New Englander he must know that flapping trousers are a heritage of the sea; if they penetrate to the inlands of jersey it must be either that they are beautiful or that the sailor sons of sailing fathers cooped up far from shore satisfy in this way their insatiable New England longing for the ocean wave. In any case, President Coolidge is wrong; he must have...
...outs of the political game, a man who was at home in it. He consulted with Senator Curtis, Republican Floor Leader Longworth, Speaker Gillett. They suggested Mr. Slemp of Virginia, who had retired from Congress shortly before. It is assumed that Mr. Sanders was chosen rather in the same fashion and for the same purposes...
From Paris came a report that Fashion has once again laid hold on Art. The account is that all fashionable women must have portraits of themselves, lifesize, hanging in their drawing rooms. It was recalled that Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt recently brought a portrait of this type...
Faddish folly, perhaps, but not to be deplored. Art has prospered by being the slave of Fashion. Much great work had never been painted had not the good ladies of the Renaissance believed it fashionable to see their portraits as saints and virgins frescoed upon their walls, or had not the ladies of a later period sighed to see themselves as muses, graces, nymphs...