Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which in a world of fact would form the background for their action. He chronicles the adventures of Miss Hope Davis, teacher of kindergarten in Low Plains, Kansas, returning from Europe on the "Ile-de-France," a ship which, from all accounts, is manned in an alert and seamanly fashion. Yet Miss Davis, falling in love with a young man who, since he is travelling with his family, does not have a private cabin, flees with him on a rough night to the bow of the ship, and there, on the deck, surrenders. The "Ile-de-France" must...
...Chiang Kai-shek bore the brunt of Chinese Soviet counter-attacks last week, operating from his field stronghold at Kweiyang. In press handouts the Generalissimo reported that Comrade Mao Tse-tung ("Chinese Lenin") now has no fixed headquarters or abode but moves with his Chinese Soviet Government in nomadic fashion from province to province. Moreover the Chinese Lenin was said to be so ill that he has to be carried on a stretcher...
Next week American Telephone & Telegraph Co. will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a dignified one-hour radio broadcast. In Washington, however, the new Federal Communications Commission is preparing to mark A. T. & T.'s golden jubilee in livelier fashion. Armed with a $750,000 appropriation, the Commission is already at work on an investigation of the telephone industry for the benefit of the U. S. Senate, which discovered to its amazement that A. T. & T. had never been put under the Congressional microscope. President Walter Sherman Gifford says there are no skeletons in his closets, and last week...
...Gold-Coasters and the Deacons stand at the top of the league, both having won two games in decisive fashion...
...Lewis, like Auden and Spender, is a poet who uses "Communion both as a stimulus and as a kind of relief from irritation," and in doing so he may well have yielded, as he suggests while speaking of the Communist movement in contemporary letters, to a passing fashion, since the literary world has its whirligig of fashion, even as the world of dress. He is good in his criticism of his associates, and, by implications, of himself, too, so that the reader is not unduly sanguine who expects him to fulfill the promise of this present volume in later years...