Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Border to counteract the big Republican push there. At Nashville, Tenn., he flayed the inconsistencies of loud-spoken Senator Borah and read long passages from Borah speeches in the Senate flaying Hoover in 1919. He described the Hon. Mr. Borah as a "political adventurer who, in some fashion or other has been under every political flag that has flown in the breeze from the days of free silver until...
Editor Frankau's well known thesis that all politicians should be removed from office and business men substituted was dealt with by Novelist Bennett in quite astounding fashion thus...
...There was the same tardy cluttering down the aisles, whiffs of expensive perfumes, the swish of wraps, the shooting of cuffs and hats. No Golden Horseshoe boxes had been sold since last season but there had been private rearrangements. Clarence H. Mackay was missing. So was Clarence Dillon. Fashion-writers noted that gowns dip in the back this year, fit snugly over the hips. One rhapsodized over a Lanvin taffeta, another over a Lelong tulle. Such pomp and circumstance meant little to Mr. Gatti. Hands in pockets, he sauntered in occasionally to where standees listened rapt to Montemezzi's music...
...steadily growing pressure. Tension gradually develops with the first appearance of curb-side speculators and new faces in the streets. On Saturday morning, with phonographs blaring forth the Harvard songs and marches from every dormitory; students rushing their girls up and down the streets in a seemingly aimless fashion, and dozens of hawkers with feathers and souvenirs nobody ever seems to buy, it reaches its high point, and then at the game it is released. It may go off with a loud bang or subside with a melancholy "whoosh!" depending on the circumstances, but in any case the balloon...
Service has gone out of fashion and most undergraduates have to be wheedled into work that was once done ungrudgingly. Harvard men do not take part in Social Service as they once did. Much of the work in the education of boys who play in the streets of Cambridge and Boston goes undone while Harvard students use their time to their own advantage. To this the answer may cynically be, "What...