Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McKelvie trip also found the President photographed in a new role?that of gold-miner. "Panning" gold in Slate Creek, after the fashion of the early prospectors, the President secured a few particles of the shining precious metal. Thus cinema patrons were assured of seeing Miner Coolidge and Fisherman Coolidge as well as Cowboy Coolidge. Mrs. Coolidge also panned gold and .succeeded in "getting color...
Still more recently doctors have come to recognize the therapeutic values of colored wall coverings. That made the wall paper manufacturers glad; they performed researches. Last week they cheered, when Richard E. Thibault of Manhattan addressed their annual National Convention of Wall Paper Wholesalers & Retailers in Manhattan after this fashion...
Fifty-seven years ago, the cathedral town of St. Andrews, Scotland, went daft over a youth of 19 whose serious face was just beginning to sprout the mutton-chop whiskers then in fashion. His name was Tom Morris Jr. With his long-necked clubs, lumpy balls and tarn o'shanter, he had gone over to Prestwick on the west coast andi for the third year running, whipped all the golfers in the land for the British Open Championship. They gave him the champion's belt, to keep permanently. The next year they did not bother to hold the tournament...
...Jenkins' invention did not, however, enable a plane to depress its wings, bird fashion. It was an adaptation of the reversible propeller blade already used on water ships but hitherto considered too dangerous for planes because of the havoc a pilot would cause by pulling his reversing lever at the wrong moment. The Jenkins device included a safety catch released only by the contact of the plane with its landing surface. When this catch releases, the pilot can "shift gears," reversing the pitch of his propeller blades so that the pressure they beat up pushes the plane backward instead...
...Miss Wills and Señorita de Alvarez walked off the court, the new champion chanced to be a step behind at the gate. Señorita Lilli de Alvarez smiled in friendly fashion, stepped aside, and gestured for Miss Wills to pass. "Queens first!" she said...