Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's disgust with Tammany and his determination to set up a less heinous Democracy in New York. Both of these accusations cannot be true; indeed it is difficult to decide which of them is, but in any case the Secretary has bogged himself in an unpretty fashion, and must lose much of the political prestige which alone made him valuable...
Some two thousand years age Alexander the Great, having conquered a substantial portion of the world, became big with pride and longed to be delivered of one of his ambitions. He was master of Egypt, and after the fashion of kings, he formed a design to leave behind him a monument forever fixed with his name. Alexander's fancy was of an extremely practical sort, and his project was to found a great city, to bear his name, to keep fresh his memory through the ages, and to pay tribute. The monarch summoned the best architects available, chose a site...
...section devoted to room rents, the Student Council's report on the House Plan presents in admirable fashion the case for narrowing the range of rents. While the larger aspects of the rent problem are not treated thoroughly, the discussion of this particular phase is able and convincing. It has become very evident that the men who can afford the most expensive rooms will not take them when other men obtain rooms only slightly less desirable for half the price. The most pressing need in the Houses has not been for the very cheap rooms but for more rooms...
...astute big game fisherman, Novelist Zane Grey, traveled from the Pacific coast, where taking big tuna had been studied and solved, to East Jordon Bay, Nova Scotia. There he tied into and landed a 758-lb. "horse mackerel" that set a world's record and started a new fashion in Atlantic game-fishing. Last week, after many cruises and much patient observation, a slim, 22-year-old college boy duplicated Fisherman Grey's feat and came within 93 pounds of the present world's record, with by far the biggest tuna ever landed in U. S. waters...
...summer prospectors have been scouring the Dominion of Newfoundland for gold. Prospectors and syndicates have staked hundreds of square miles of claims. Following reports of rich strikes, small steamships and airplanes have been carrying eager men and supplies into the wilderness in gold rush fashion. Excited, the Dominion government hired Professor Alfred Kitchener Snelgrove of Princeton, and F. W. Foote, Manhattan mining engineer, to make an expert survey. Last week the Government released the first section of their report. Messrs. Snelgrove & Foote said that it was not unlikely gold would be found, added-like a douche of cold water-that...