Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disappointing a group of enthusiasts who had gathered in the hope of witnessing a violent quarrel over the elections, the Liberal Club last night conducted their business in a most orderly fashion and announced at the close, that Victor, H. Kramer '35 of Cincinnati, Ohio, had been elected president of the organization for the coming year...
...desirous of the services of someone to set up a formal dinner table. A steward was dispatched on the sport, with explicit orders to leave behind him the most perfectly arranged and executed masterpiece within the scope of his capabilities. This he proceeded to carry out in a fashion acceptable even to the extremely fastidious taste of the President, who, unbeknown to the Great Lord of the Kitchen, carefully inspected everything before dismissing the man with his customary curt...
...last week Sergio Osmena and Manuel Quezon, the two great leaders of the Philippine Nationalist party, marched into the Philippine legislature arm in arm. Their appearance in that fashion was greeted with surprise and applause, for they had been political enemies since a year ago when Congress offered the Philippines freedom and Senor Quezon succeeded in defeating acceptance of the offer...
...notable exception the reading is good. Unfortunately, the exception is the textbook used in the course, Hockett. A great deal of the evil of having a poor textbook is, however, removed by the thoroughness of Professor Merk's lectures. With this one exception, History 5a accomplishes in very commendable fashion its task of racing through the nation's history...
...subject, is here pictured in an amusing, yet scholarly light. The lectures which could easily be boring and uninteresting contain much humor and many queer tales of "the other side" of our colonial ancestors. Although none of the essential factual detail is omitted, it is presented in a fashion which makes the hours pass rapidly and gives one more time and interest for the reading a thing which he well needs, for the assignments are not short and many of them hardly brim over with fascination...