Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before the mutineers reached Canton, where General Chen Chi-tang heads a Government loosely subservient to that of Chiang Kaishek, the Generalissimo acted decisively to save his face, Chinese-fashion, and give an appearance of squelching the mutineers. To General Chen, who was about to buy the three war boats anyway, Chiang telegraphed "orders to incorporate them temporarily into the Southwest Navy" at Canton...
...Englishman preparation for a race is dependent only on common sense of each runner. To the American, the preparation depends not on the common sense of the individual but on the common sense of a hard and fast set of rules. Almost in military fashion the American is forced to follow this code under penalty of losing his place on the team; so true to the laws of human nature, rather than thinking of the end for which the laws are made he has a habit of thinking of them as an infringement on his freedom." Hallowell said...
...extremely anxious that India should be kept out of the political arena." began Mr. Baldwin and bumbled on in well-bred fashion for half an hour, after which the Conference sang "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow...
...down into the football arena which had been converted into summer concert grounds for the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten, looking like a college boy in his white flannel pants, made the opening concert a memorial to Brahms and Wagner.* He flicked his baton in militant, routine fashion but most of the orchestramen needed no leading. They could have played the familiar music with their eyes shut. And the 12,000 listeners, few of whom think of paying winter concert prices, were completely satisfied. Stadium concerts had started in the traditional way-even to the lengthy, almost inaudible...
...birthday. Circulation: "about 300,000." Best evidence that the magazine still makes money is the fact that foxy Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. continues to publish it. His stable shelters no boarders. Ballyhoo continues the stunt-which it has worn threadbare-of poking fun at advertisers, but in desultory fashion. Now it is largely a funny-picture book, and, if anything, less salacious than at birth. Such paid advertising as it can get, it takes, burlesqued or not. Of the crop of imitators which sprang up during Ballyhoo's initial success, all but one-"Captain Billy" Fawcett...