Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propaganda," of which Mr. Riegel speaks, is really a very old propaganda applied in an increasingly effective fashion by national governments in their competitive struggle for power. It is "new" only in the sense that modern ingenuity has multiplied the agencies which may be used for propaganda dissemination. Moreover, the modern government is employing specialists whose sole activity is the invention of new and marvellous ways of capturing a favorable public opinion, not only at home, but abroad as well...
...pattern of their lives is not, however, separated from the body of the book, nor is it the whole book. In the person of Vergil Harris. I find examplified a manner of handling character that has now come to be a fashion. Vergil has the habit of confusing time, of imagining himself back in his boyhood, of suffering again the persecutions of boyhood playmates. This may be a thoroughly accurate way of portraying weak characters. It is, at any rate, a favorite one with modern novelists: Joyce has used it. Whole books have been written by his imitators (Mr. Aiken...
...have helped Owner Mara to enter sidelines like coal, liquor-importing (Timara Whiskey), fight promoting. In 1926 Owner Mara paid West Point's famed back Gene Vidal, now U. S. Director of Air Commerce, $100 to play for 15 minutes in a Florida exhibition game. He has set the fashion in hiring highly-publicized college stars, done more than any other one club-owner to aid professional football...
...find while Mary does the cookin' she knows what she's lookin' for? She's looking for a bargain and it's right there in your store. While she's sweepin' up she's peepin' thro' some fashion page...
...ability and personal charm that there can be no more experimentation without disaster. We have experimented long enough; now is the time to put Harvard football in the hands of a well-tried and recognized, expert. That assistant coaches are not always successful has been proved in a startling fashion by our own experience with Mr. Casey. Paul Donham...