Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a placard around her neck reading, "I am a liar and an unnatural mother!" Nurembergers guffawed. Two pictures of the driven woman were printed with approving comments by the local Nazi newsorgan Fränkische Zeitung. The Storm Troopers looked around for another woman to drive in medieval fashion through the streets. They found one accused of murdering her child-but suddenly Nuremberg's Nazi municipal government intervened. There had been too many letters from British tourists, the Storm Troopers were warned, about that pretty, non-Jewish girl whom they had dragged around town orfe night earlier...
Bars served free drinks. Tipsy citizens cried "Whoopee!" in U. S. fashion as more Porristas (50 in all last week) were shot down, trampled and mangled by the crowds, dragged away by soldiers...
...patron of Boy Scouts, but in his own fashion, wealthy and eccentric President Juan Vicente Gomez took small interest last week in the Fourth World Scout Jamboree (see p. 18). Four years ago he offered $10,000 to the first Venezuelan Boy Scout who should return from a walk to every South American country. Last week the seamy featured old President received with relish the news that Scout Carlos Arturo Zembrana is still walking still the favorite to win the $10,000 prize. Aged 11, Scout Zembrana left Venezuela in 1929, tramped across the wilds of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru...
...Enoch Arnold Bennett (TIME, June 1), exclaimed: "Did you ever think about gland conditioning? And how soon it may be within our power to choose our character as we choose our clothes? Of course, its depressing to think that we women may choose them with as much obedience to fashion and uniformity as we do hats and dresses. Are egos being worn long this year? Is the high fashion a gentle melancholy, a sad haunting quality? Or perhaps for winter garb a super-optimism, a robust go-ahead character with nothing to learn but humility." A stranger walked into...
...Both cases," wrote Dr. Hare, "reacted in a very dramatic fashion." The first patient, a woman of 27, began to improve after two injections four hours apart. She slept well that night, received a third injection next day. Despite a tendency to run temperatures of 100°, she continued to improve steadily. The second patient's progress was uninterrupted. Chest pain and difficulty in breathing disappeared within four hours after an injection...