Word: fashionableness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ordinary group of 13 ministers. Aside from their major attainments as statesmen, the Premier and eight of his ministers have published books of which France has no call to feel ashamed. Premier Poincaré and Minister of Justice Barthou have made history and then clapped it in scholarly fashion between covers. Foreign Minister Briand has to his credit an authoritative volume on the separation of Church and State. Books of travel, natural history and biography flow incessantly from the pen of Minister of Education Herriot, whose Madame Recamier has attained moderate sale in the U. S.* Minister of Public Works...
Most humanitarians have a flair for pioneering. Conductor Damrosch brought Wagner into U. S. favor at a time when the fashion was to snicker at the German. He, first, played the greatest Symphony since Beethoven, the Tschaikowsky "Pathetique." He sponsored...
...which with proper synchronization, would reproduce the image-fractions. To throw these images together on a screen he had arranged 24 mirrors on the periphery of a swiftly rotating drum. The reflection of a series of rapidly changing images induced the optical effect of a moving picture, after the fashion of a cinema film. The possibilities: synchronized with sound-carrying radio, the sight-carrying radio might some day bring before the eyes of a man in Kankakee, Ill., the coronation of a king in Westminister;* it might enable folk to "go to the theatre" by turning a switch. Immediate possibilities...
Coach Brown, who took over the crew helm this fall, believes that if men are able to grasp fundamentals in thorough fashion, it is an easy matter then to shake them together into definite lineups. In other words he intends to develop his material first and name his line-ups when he knows what that material amounts to. This is not a radical departure in coaching, but a twist new enough to cause the focussing of a certain amount of attention on his efforts next spring...
...intent upon studying to qualify as organist of the Pittsburgh Presbyterian Church, Mr. Cadman, as a lad, entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Co., worked as messenger boy under Charles M. Schwab. Into the office he dragged couplings, hung them on a frame, created a metallophone after a fashion. Thus equipped, he be guiled the tedious hours of clerks and bookkeepers with lilting, popular tunes. During these "office days," the melodies kept rippling through his head, took embryonic form. People marvel sometimes that his well-known song, "At Dawning," which alone paid for his beautiful summer home...