Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read your new Fashion Department with, I will confess a critical but, I am sure, unmercenary eye. I wish now to express my approval qualified by one or two suggestions. In the first place, I am afraid that you do not always seize upon the most significant developments. But this defect will probably be corrected as you acquire familiarity with your subject. Then I have a more important suggestion: why do you not call your department PROGRESS, rather than FASHION? The latter is an unpleasant word carrying a hint of inconsequence, whim, frivolousness and lack of permanence. Should...
...hero's cue he said as instructed. "My goodness. I'm shot!" But the feeling a warm trickle down his side, and mistaking it for a trickle of blood, cried, "--* --,* I AM shot! ! ! !" When a man is in danger or facing terrible torture, e. g. reading a Fashion Sheet Page, it is natural that he call upon the Deity. If you publish this letter it would be natural for me to exclaim, "God save me from the Rapps...
...Duchess of Marlborough, the several gay and wayward studies of Peggy Jean (Mr. Epstein's child). When they looked across the room at No. 21, they wondered what wild emotion caused the bronze woman to clasp her hands and open her mouth in so inane a fashion. Some of the sharper babbits decided that she was laughing at the companion works of Sculptor Epstein; then they looked at their catalogs and saw, "No. 21: Weeping Woman." They turned to the bronze face again. Slowly there crept into their minds the feeling that perhaps, in her slack eyes, her gasping...
...conferences need not entail tutorial reading in these three weeks--course reading will be sufficiently large to occupy the student; tutorial conferences do, however, offer opportunities wherein the student may approach his tutor for advice on his own attack on these periods. Obviously if the tutor directs in wholesale fashion the undergraduate's reading and checks up on him to see that he does that reading one of the chief raisons d'etre of the whole plan will be destroyed. Two conferences during the three weeks, however, would make this possibility unlikely; both tutor and tutee are well aware...
When in 1924 France grew exasperated at the Gordian knot into which Germany was lying the matter of reparations, she solved the situation in traditional military fashion by ordering her troops to occupy the Ruhr. Other nations, less precipitate in action, shared her anger over the matter of post war settlements. The situation was rapidly becoming a crisis when Charles G. Dawes, Owen Young, and their associates were appointed by the Reparations Commission to draw up what has since been called the Dawes Plan for Reparations Payment. The Dawes plan is responsible for the present stabilization of German currency...