Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baroness Katarina von Ohimb, lady member of the Reichstag, of "playing petticoat politics" during the last Cabinet crisis. Retorted the good lady: "You will have to look elsewhere for the guilty parties, and to help your search I will inform you that bowing to the dictates of the present fashion I do not wear petticoats." Die Tageszeitung, reactionary Berlin journal, added ironically: "Every German politician knows that the Baroness wears trousers, not petticoats...
...past it has been the fashion to blame immature youth for its lack of appreciation, and very few educators, at least, have had the courage to see the shortcomings of their own system. But in fact the fundamental reason for undergraduate apathy to studies is that the general community is not convinced that men of high scholastic ranking are the best men. Colleges have turned out graduates with diplomas based on standards of pure scholastic learning, with no help in a wise choice of a career and no opportunity to get in touch with men who could advise wisely...
...usual the wild and woozy West is ahead by a good two generations of the rest of the country. Two-score years hence Mr. Wells's dream will have become a reality. An automobile trip in the fashion of his hovel will not have to end in a wreck which magically throws its occupants into another world. A peaceful journey to California will accomplish the same result, and the weather is sure to be better than in Mr. Wells's Utopia...
...blurb says: "This newspaper will picture local, national and international news and events by actual photographs. Other features: United News despatches, leased wire coast despatches, household and fashion pages, sports and children's pages, harbor and shipping news and an unrivaled comic section. . . . Clean, fearless and independent. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Editor and Publisher...
...theme of the constitutional liar, temporarily staving off detection by fresh falsehoods, but in the end hopelessly enmeshed in the network of his deceptions, was handled in masterly fashion more than a century before Goldoni by Corneille in "Le Menteur". In contrast to the French author's dignified verse-comedy, Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo" ("The Liar") is often broadly farcical...