Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journals may offer sharp contrast to the romantic tale that is found in the "Half Century of Conflict." The book is a compilation of ten accounts of the siege by different eye-witnesses, six of whom remain unknown to the present day. Written in the plain matter of fact fashion of the unimaginative colonial they simply set forth the events that took place in the one American expedition of the War of the Austrian Succession. One must not expect to find more than a straight chronicle of the invasion, and as such these journals are indeed adequate...
Under the present arrangement French 2 undertakes to teach literal translation of plays, rapid reading of classics, French composition, and a history of French literature of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The aims of the course are far too extensive; consequently the material is presented in a haphazard fashion by men who being aware of the weaknesses and elementary character of the course, are not much more anxious to teach than their students to learn. Nor does French 2 prepare a student to do any of the specific reading which may be required of him later in history, government...
...19th century, equipping a student to read French treatises in such courses as he may pursue later in his career. In such a manner two courses which are now white elephants in an otherwise efficient department, might be reorganized into courses filling a prevalent need in an intelligent fashion...
...women whose ideas of a fashion opening are gathered from cinema or from the circuses which U. S. cloak & suiters stage in large hotels, would be disappointed by a genuine Parisian premiere. There are no orchestras, no spotlights, no elegant young men in cutaways. The rooms are elaborately decorated but a trifle dusty. Harried vendeuses in black elbow hip-swinging models about. Blue-jowled buyers scribble earnestly in little books. There is much confusion. One thing Paris couturiers have learned from Hollywood: to produce at each spring and autumn opening a certain number of freak gowns, shown only for their...
This winter out front in the musical scene has been Lawyer Norton's daughter Eunice, 24-year-old pianist. She has soloed in competent if not peerless fashion with the big orchestras in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Manhattan. Last week, impressed by her season's record (untouched by any other U. S. woman pianist), Manhattan critics went to see what Eunice Norton would do in a Town Hall recital...