Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been executed by the State of Mississippi. But a hanging did not appeal to the People of Mississippi. It arose, it grasped rifle, shotgun, pistol, it rode on horses by night and it took Negro Shepherd away from the State of Mississippi and dealt with him after its own fashion. In Mississippi, Blacks outnumber Whites by almost nine to eight. Where there are nine Black Men to eight White Women, the People is apt to find excuse for making an occasional example. Meanwhile the State of Mississippi took no proceedings against its People. Governor Bilbo said he had neither time...
LEONARDO THE FLORENTINE-A Study in Personality-Rachel Annand Taylor- Harpers ($6.00). Rich dignity in a biography of da Vinci, the central figure in a luminous tapestry of Italian Renaissance. A CENTURY OF FASHION-Jean Philippe Worth-Little, Brown ($7.50). Three generations of dressmakers dictate to society dowagers, famous actresses, and ladies of the evening. THE TWILIGHT OF THE AMERICAN MIND-Walter B. Pitkin-Simon & Schuster ($3.50). Provocative, logical, but curiously perverted warning against too much education, too thorough eugenics. *A managing editor of the Herald was asked if his office had any list of ''sacred cows...
...unsubstantiated intuitions of certain eminent psycho-analysts and the results of a mass of unenlightened objective tests assiduouly performed by more conscientious but less inspired workers. The illumination that comes from the interplay of imagination and practical experience needs to be merged with scientific methodology, rather after the fashion of the experiments Dr. Morton Prince '75, before more progress is to be anticipated. It is this that we are attempting to do. During the fall research has been centered about the problems of suggestibility, and an attempt has been made by Mr. Herbert L. Barry to discover the correlation...
Longfellow, distinctly out of fashion at the moment, wrote sententiously to the effect that lives of great men all remind us we can make our own sublime and departing leave behind us footprints in the sands of time. By substituting "wives" for "lives" sprightly Guedalla makes wicked point to the dreary platitude, and proceeds to silhouet six Victorian wives against the conspicuous background of their husbands...
...cinema, The Cohens and Kellys, which dealt with the same situation (Irish-Hebrew romance), achieved some box-office attention. Accordingly, last week, Anne Nichols, asking $3,000,000, was in court to sue Universal Pictures Corp. for plagiarism. The trial proceeded in the higgly-piggly fashion of plagiarism suits, with interminable memorabilia, mentions of long-forgotten vaudeville skits and old plays from which The Cohens and Kellys might possibly have been derived. Some Universal adman had written an advertisement in which The Cohens and Kellys had been called "another Abie's Irish Rose." This was discussed. Universal discredited...