Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huge schools are intellectual filling-stations where culture may be had in any given quantity or quality regardless of the student's gas capacity. The remedies suggested are many, but among the more popular is the one of breaking these inert masses up into smaller colleges after the fashion of Oxford and Cambridge. And it may well be that salvation lies that way. Certainly the system seems to work in England, for like it or not, English universities leave certain characteristic marks on their graduates. One thing they have which must exert a profound effect upon the undergraduates...
From the depths of Central Europe used to come in olden days young, men who, landing in the U. S., went directly to tailor shops and with great shears learned the artful intricacies of cutting out men's fashionable suits. Now, under the quota law, they come no more-or at least not in sufficient numbers to meet the demands of the purveyors of fine suitings. Young Americans cannot or will not serve as apprentice cutters. The ranks of experts grow thin. Wage demands go up. Hence the high cost of fashion...
Opened importantly last week the spring and summer salons of many a great Parisian couturier. Since these are no vulgar "fashion shows" a discreet preview was permitted only to authentic amateurs and smartest clients. Soon the elect observed a series of Parisian points sure to mark the orbit of La Mode...
Twenty miles from London stands an historic hill and on it stands an historic Cathedral. Its dark cruciform shape lowers over the countryside, its Norman towers stretch sadly to the sky. It was in the 12th century that workmen first piled stone on stone to fashion the Cathedral of St. Albans. Since then many workmen and architects have rebuilt, altered and toyed, but the Cathedral still stands much as it was first planned by an abbot who wished to honor a martyred saint...
Famed male dancers are the Russians Mikhail Mordkin and Adolph Bolm, the American Ted Shawn, the Japanese Michio Ito and the German Harald Kreutzberg. Kreutzberg, who, according to many, leads them all today, is 24. He was once a designer for a small fashion magazine, then a dance pupil of the modernist Mary Wigman, then head of the Hanover Opera ballet. He came first to the U. S. last year with Max Reinhardt's players and last fortnight he came again, with Danseuse Yvonne Georgi, for a series of performances under the management of that doughty oldtime stage-lady...