Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plays both phases of the role in capital fashion, and as such movies go, "Tempest" is far from poor. Camilla Horn does a Russian princess and the unique Louis Wolheim is again on hand to demonstrate where plastic surgery might have been applied...
Were it not for the fact that the Confidential Guide id in no wise intended to dogmatic, such a feeling of resentment would be entirely justified. No individual undergraduate can pretend to appraise a course in such fashion as to do justice to all of its possibilities to share his personal reaction. The Confidential Guide is a collection of individual reactions-reactions intended as guide posts to other students, which may also be reasonably expected to bring out here and there points of vital weakness or strength...
Briand's Thrusts. Never before has Peace Apostle Aristide Briand addressed the League in such militant, 100% French fashion as last week. Usually he exhales the grand hymn of International Concord. Last week he snapped like an angry Frenchman at enemy Germans: "It is very easy to make fine speeches about peace, and I know I have been reproached by my political enemies for producing words instead of deeds. I do not say that the German Chancellor is one of these reproachers. His speech was very eloquent. Still I could not help feeling that some such reproach underlay...
...fashion to define Harvard College swiftly, for Freshman instruction, and this is an impossible thing. But in the days when the epigram ruled the drawing-room someone said: "Boston is not a city, it is a state of mind." In its pristine application the truth is a waning one, perhaps, but refitted to that other shoulder of the New England tradition, Harvard College, it somes nearer to a summary than any epigram should...
...Mayer sets down the story of this Canot, Italian by birth, American by adoption, who sailed the last legal slaver before the trade was outlawed. Forced thereafter to bootleg his valuable black cargo, he practiced the proverbial sardine economy of space in his barracoon, packing his human loot spoon fashion, so that each wretch lay curved in his neighbor...