Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Debating Council submitted three resolutions to the colleges to be visited. These resolutions met the approval of all the colleges, and it was decided that the Harvard team would support the alternative in all cases. The Harvard team will present its arguments after the English fashion, aiming to entertain as well as to inform. The first of the following resolutions was by far the most popular of those submitted for the approval of the colleges: Resolved, That Emancipated Woman is a Curse: Resolved. That Loyalty is the Curse of the American College: Resolved. That the Jury System should...
...fiancee amounts to nothing. The children and the mistress fight with each other for the lawyer. Why the children are not spanked by their father and told to stay at home is not explained. Instead they invade the mistress' apartment or ask her in ill-bred fashion to visit theirs. Somehow, Author Meehan makes their bad behavior seem excusable so that the audience hopes that both mistress and children will get the lawyer. Owing to the skilled advices of a friend of the mistress, both do. William Boyd, once Quirt in What Price Glory, is the bone of contention...
...adoption of an examination in Greek mythology and the Bible the division of Fine Arts has subscribed to the fashion current in the field of the humanities of widening the latitude of study to embrace topics related to the central theme in their status as background or sources. An understanding of these rich stores of artistic symbolism will deepen the meaning of the carved or painted subject for the student. There have been men who could explain the significance of Judith and Holofernes in oil or marble, who did not know, to borrow sporting parlance, what league these principals played...
...indisputably among the more decorative of Manhattan's heroines, put herself to the perhaps necessary task of writing a play that would deserve embellishments by her upon the stage. The play was romantically sweet, about Pierrot, Columbine and Scaramouche. A designer of dolls, dreaming in far from Freudian fashion of their unfortunate intrigues, found advices in it for his own and on waking up for the epilogue, promised to be true to Judy. Jane Cowl was Judy and, in the doll-designer's dream, she played the part of Columbine...
Black Frocks Out of Fashion...