Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able-bodied Irish matrons, Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Callahan, hurl garbled Hibernian-English at each other over a backyard fence. They grab at each other's hair, throw pots and pans. They swat their children, who make love in cow-like fashion and threaten to entangle the two families in matrimonial alliances. In the end, of course, the children do get married...
...cost of government in New York has risen $135,961,870 since 1917. Said he: "I am ready at all times and at all places to defend the policy of my Administrations in the handling of the state's business. " Manhattan newspapers headlined his report in characteristic fashion: The Democratic World: SMITH ANSWERS G. 0. P. CHARGE OF EXTRAVAGANCE "EX Democratic Times : GOV. SMITH SHOWS STATE HAS $13,965,345 SURPLUS; FOES PREDICTED DEFICIT. The Republican Herald Tribune: RUNNING COST OF STATE THIS YEAR TO RISE...
...English Channel grew smooth. Mr. Temme swallowed chocolate, tea, coffee, lemonade. A "giant" dogfish waggled itself alongside Mr. Temme in friendly fashion. Mr. Temme trudgeoned on, reaching Lydden Spout, under the Dover chalk cliffs, in 14 hr. 29 min.-two minutes less than Miss Ederle had taken; but three hours, 24 minutes longer than George Michel, the plump, record-holding French baker. Thomas W. Burgess, bronzed Nestor of English natation, and second- man to swim the Channel (in 1911), clapped his pupil heartily on a greasy shoulder. Evelyn Pettipiere, Mr. Temme's fiancee, rushed forward for a wet embrace...
...Chicago Tribune, not squeamish, carried an advertising sketch of a "tweaker." Superficially this instrument resembles a pair of scissors between the points and handles of which four flexible strands are strung and intertwined in curious fashion...
...hair, insisted last week that it be not taxed for its good will; made the following plaint to the New York State Tax Commission: "The business has no good will of any value. The business conducted by the corporation is that of dealing in human hair goods. Since the fashion of bobbing hair came in, the business of dealing in hair has shrunk considerably and has destroyed the good will which any business of this nature may have had in prior years...