Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter in a sensible manner with some regard for the feeling of the undergraduates. To deny them the privillege of petition was hardly the way to win them over to the side of the Administration. Nor was the affair at N.Y.U. dealt with in a much more intelligent fashion. The Student Senate, apparently determined at last to assert itself on a controversial question where the Daily had taken the wrong side, discontinued the publication of the paper. This sort of dictation was of course intolerable as the strike and mass meetings indicated...
...Repository, sold at least one copy daily. It was a four-page sheet consisting chiefly of house advertisements, with one page of news, always including at least one story from the AP night wire. The same editorial was left standing for about a year, then was replaced by comics, fashion sketches. Total cost to Scripps-Howard, including the annual AP assessment: $50,000 a year. Last week Scripps-Howard concluded that the membership was no longer worth supporting, let it die with the Repository...
...from Mr. Frederick Prince, Boston capitalist, who brands the professor as either a meddler or a coward, and asks, "Why should a man ever run away from the world except through cowardice? Professors are our curse--they talk too much." For his part, he recommends in a very definite fashion that the nation "chuck its professors," and draw its economic enlightenment from more practical sources...
...smaller resources than his father, Adrian Iselin has the reputation among yachtsmen of being equally adroit, if a shade less bold. He has owned Victory sloops, six-and eight-metre boats and another star, made of mahogany, the Snapper which he sold when light cedar hulls were coming into fashion. With his Ace, built in 1924, he won the International Championship in 1925, the Bacardi Cup in 1927, innumerable minor trophies which, in his house at East Williston (L. I.) make a respectable glitter beside the huge silvery bonfire of the cups he inherited when his father died a year...
...first time Montgomery Ward distributed a large number of catalogs by hand. In addition to a saving on mailing costs, the company wished to put a personal touch into an otherwise impersonal business. And for the first time in more than a year Montgomery Ward is back in the fashion field with up-to-the-minute women's clothing departmentalized into "shops." Well aware that modern advertising has practically eliminated the old-time yokel, all merchandise has been freshened up, styles heavily stressed...