Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the favorite topics of the day are those which have to do with time. Efficiency experts are as keen for the salvation of a minute as for the elimination of a bead of sweat. Jazz, with its syncopated notes, follows the fashion by trying to crowd more "music" into a shorter period. Nor are legislative bodies free from the influences of this movement. Daylight saving, a recurrent cause of conflict, is merely a means to make the most of recreation hours...
...legal profession", Mr. Byrne pointed out, "a young man finds many attractions. First of all he deals with large affairs and with materials which will soon be tested in a concrete fashion by an authorized body in such a way as to show whether or not his work has been well done. Besides this, he comes into contact with men of great experience, and from his associations comes a gradual growth and development of personal experience which is in itself a great reward. A lawyer, moreover, is in a very independent position; his ability and energy are his capital...
...recovery of business from the deep depression of 1921 has proceeded in a perfectly normal fashion, in spite of European unsettlement, and good business may be expected throughout 1923, according to a report made public last night by the Economic Service of the University, in which further expansion of business, firm or higher commodity prices, and steady or higher money rates were predicted...
...Fair, and House and Garden, is responsible for the physical appearance and the general artistic excellence of those magazines, and is a large buyer of advertising and magazine art. The market for such work, over which he presides, has been a great factor in developing many of the foremost fashion artists in the country. He has introduced to the American public such well known French illustrators as Lepape, Martin, Boutet de Mondel the younger, Georges Barbier, and Brissaud. In photography the Baron de Meyer, Alfred Cheney Johnston, Nikolas Muray, and Dr. Arnold Genthe have found in the Nast Publications...
...time to commence counting in months the period before the presidential nominations of 1924. Already politicians are cutting out their paper dolls, striving for a fashion that will hit the public's favor. Prominent in this week's news as presidential possibilities were...