Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Square district. He worked on the theory that the Grub Street products of an age had a distinct place in its literary history. William W. Watt, in his essay on the penny, sixpenny and shilling Gothic stories that persisted long after "Frankenstein" and "The Monk" had passed out of fashion, has proved this unanswerably...
Last spring the Student Council compiled a graph which demonstrated in striking fashion that "the great bulk of new accommodations added by the House Plan have been priced at $280 and above per man, and that there is need for an increase in the number of medium priced rooms around $240 and $260 per student." With this report in mind, the administration has fixed the median of the new rates at about $260. Further than this, the whole scale of rents between $500 and $600 has been wiped out and large additions have been made to the number of rooms...
...away, out and away," the Vagabond crooned to himself as he crashed his fist through the glass of the front door to see whether it was really closed or just seemed to be. He smiled in impersonal fashion at his hand which dangled on the other side of the door, through which it had just passed. He didn't see how he was going to get the rest of him through the hole he had made with his fist...
...them for having lost city jobs in the elections last spring. Students charged also that the cafeteria manager had been ousted and replaced by the friend of a board member. The cafeteria was straightway boycotted. The teachers went even further. They formed a protective association, headed in true Chicago fashion by a "Secret Four." They had handbills printed. The first, titled "Down With The Dicks," urged the students thus...
...Stores last week. Henry Charles Lytton, now 86, started the first store 46 years ago with $12.700 capital. He spent $2,500 for fixings, $3.500 for advertising. In March 1929, when the Hub Stores were reported doing a $10,000,000-a-year business they were sold to Fashion Park Associates. Inc., for stock then worth $7,000,000, now worth i/'iooth as much at market prices. How much it cost the Lyttons to buy back their stores was not disclosed...