Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rivera, his prototype in Spain, have now so claw-hooked their authority into the texture of law and politics that the only combative weapons left to their enemies are assassination and revolution. Both statesmen have successfully spurred their countrymen to strides and leaps in material progress. They are the fashion plates aped by all modern personal autocrats. Examples: President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey; Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski of Poland; Dictator General Carlos Ibanez of Chile...
Bank Backing. A suave, plump, oval-faced statesman, eyes keen, beard a scrubby Vandyke, was hailed as the real creator of the new gold lira. He is Count Guiseppe Volpi di Misurata. Citizens of the U. S. remember the business-like fashion in which he negotiated the funding of Italy's War debt to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925). Last week he revealed the vast credits which he has built up abroad to enable Italy to defend her new currency against fluctuation on international exchange. Said he: "The Bank of Italy wishes to secure the collaboration of international...
...Dress. After repulsing the improper advances of her employer's son, a shopgirl (Virginia Valli) marries the honest poor boy whom she has captivated with her girl friend's sartorial assistance. This merry plot is a frayed and apparently accidental ribbon tied to the wrist of a fashion show...
...Author Lewis, Mr. Williams has used this research not to indulge in bad-humored thumpings but to speak accurately of events which occurred during the lifetime of his Henry Beeker. The result is a good novel which recalls sundry highlights of the past 40 years in a very satisfactory fashion...
...vote-swaying, political-threatening. Mr. Cherrington represents a faction of the League which conceives that Wheelerism has been misunderstood in the U. S.; that the League's moneyed lobbying has made the League almost unpopular; that the League's wisest course now is to spend its millions after the fashion of manufacturers of tomato soup and cigarets, on national advertising and an "educational" campaign...