Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...applaud the "horrors of war" story; it is, the fashion nowadays. But those who soldiered under General Neville have a secret conviction that it was worth the "horrors" to watch him in action. Every inch a man,-and quite a few inches...
Before performing that act and uttering the pledge that precedes it, Mr. Hoover will undoubtedly repair to the Friends Meeting House and silently dedicate himself in Quaker fashion...
...fate of Black Beauty, ignominiously harnessed to a hackney cab, is not so gloomy as that of these mighty beasts of the illustrious prince. No more will they be watched by the beau monde to catch the latest developments in fashion. Traditions of the past are the sparkling and fresh witticisms which accompanied each throw they gave their master. Only in memory are the steeple chases they so nobly lost...
...carol "the brightest hour must end" and the hunters par excellence, the glory of their age must leave their royal master. Sportsmen sigh, men of fashion are beginning to attend automobile shows and shop girls sob. Everywhere are heard encomiums tinctured with the sorrow of seeing the brilliance of the present fading into the obscurity of the past. Great metropolitan newspapers weep by the column for the glory that once shone on these princely steeds. The world is mourning and grimly faces the dark future...
Lillie Langtry was painted by Burne-Jones, Watts, Poynter, Millais (whose title "Jersey Lily" became her nickname). Langtry hats, shoes, gowns, coiffeur (knot at nape of neck) were standards of fashion. The Earl of Lonsdale and Sir George Chetwynd went fisticuffing for her sake in Hyde Park. Frederick Gebhardt, U. S. sportsman & socialite, built her a Manhattan mansion which still stands. Passing through a little Texas town, to which she had once been invited for the opening of a Lillie Langtry saloon, she was welcomed at the poker table, and the town was renamed Langtry...