Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the recount, announced in such peculiar fashion, apparently had no authorization, which would have been easily obtainable, is unfortunate, but if this is the story which the ballots of a capably run election tell, the results must stand. The rumors of inefficiency which surround the conduct of the elections by the two Juniors, however, are of more serious moment, and if they prove to be true unprecedented action may be demanded to meet this unprecedented situation...
...should be pleased to learn that this is a completely enjoyable version of the same story, ably revised to suit its leading actors. In civilized and airy fashion, it relates the efforts of an irresponsible radio crooner (Bing Crosby) to waste his first million dollars on fulfilling a childish ambition to marry a princess. When he meets the Princess (Kitty Carlisle) in Monte Carlo, it takes him no time at all to learn that she considers radio crooners at the bottom of the social scale. He buys the hotel in which she and her imprudent relatives are living on their...
...investigation was that the Government understood well enough the true facts about the U. S. munitions industry. Not only is it small fry compared to the European arms industries, but the men who run it are typical U. S. businessmen who abhor, in typical U. S. fashion, the idea of fomenting war for profit. The big arms makers of Europe may not be above such skullduggery, but up to last week Senator Nye's committee had produced no shred of evidence to prove that U. S. arms makers had stooped to such practices...
...everybody who knows him loves him. He finds it hard to send me anything to live on here in New York because of the Russian laws that stop money from being sent out of the country. I manage, by the help of the Lord, to live after a fashion, but New York is a hard city to live in. Last year my boy visited me, so he could renew his American passport...
...second and final opera of the evening was entitled "Cynthia's Strategy," and a wise girl indeed was Cynthia for she saw the loophole in her father's objections to her much-desired Stanley and triumphed in good fashion...