Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entering vocations for which they have a personal preference. A great number specified that they would rather write, travel, enter the diplomatic service, or engage in teaching if external circumstances allowed. Others would enter the fields of music, art, academic research, aviation, farming, the Army, entomology, journalism, or fashion reporting. One even professed that he would like to be a perennial undergraduate...
Majority Leader Killgrew appealed to the higher emotions (not to say intellect) of his colleagues, remarking in scholarly fashion: "Why, even go back to Adam and Eve, and you find they even were a fig leaf," Fortunately no fellow-legislator cared to delve into the pre-fig leaf period and quote the twenty-fifth verse of Chapter two of Genesis: "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."--but there was no second "person of the opposite sex" present, so that our first parents need not add a misdemeanor to their already heavy burden...
Harvard must be in a pretty bad way when it has to drop seven sports in order to save $20,000. Saving such an amount of money in such a fashion is utterly ridiculous. If I could not find another way out of a deficit excepting by curtailing the athletic program, I would pack my bags and make way for someone who could...
...fashion for gumshoes who, when they encounter corpses, malefactors and degenerates, enjoy a manic period of which wisecracks are the symptoms, started with The Thin Man. The Case of the Curious Bride is a less adroit, less original picture but the speed of Michael Curtiz' direction manages to create somewhat the same mixture of tension and amusement. Warren William, fast becoming Hollywood's No.1 exponent of deductive reasoning, is aided enormously by Claire Dodd in her first cinema performance as a nice girl...
...those of most composers. His parents were not rich but neither were they poor. They realized his genius but they refused to exploit him. Trouble developed after he attempted to make his own way in the world. Audiences were accustomed, then, to pianists who pounded in heavy Germanic fashion. Chopin's style was delicate and subtle, more suited to his own music than to the Titans he sometimes tried to interpret. Vienna refused to recognize him when he went there at 20. Next year his first Paris concert failed to pay expenses...