Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organs involved in general blood stream, itself infected from superficially situated foci of infection resident in the teeth and tonsils. . . . The consequence of these discoveries has been a complete reversal of many of our older clinical points of view and its utilization has altered in most significant fashion all medical, surgical and dental practice...
...space on the fortified wall between two turrets, Sir Walter Raleigh walked. He had a small white beard and a bedraggled ruff about his neck, of the kind that had been in fashion a dozen years before. He walked back and forth in the narrow space, stopping from time to time to look at the water and at the ships there. He had sailed those boats to Virginia, and brought back wealth and power for himself and his queen. Then he turned away and walked back and forth again, making the four-step turn that British sailors have used since...
...Flag." Spit in the Cream! Blackpool is a North British seaside resort that is anything but Red. Rumbling into Blackpool last week came the first-class cars of delegates to the 59th Annual Congress of the Conservative Party. Brass bands boomed "God Save the King." In hurried fashion the Party (which holds 471 seats out of the 615 in the House of Commons) drafted a policy which it hopes to put through before the un-national character of the so-called National Government becomes too glaringly apparent and leads to a General Election...
...nonchalance which befitted his caste. By virtue of these things his box was filled with bids, which he answered in person. By virtue of these things his classmates, descendants of the purest Puritans, or only sons of Midwestern farmers, his classmates who wore their shabbiest clothes as was the fashion, and who hated spending, which is vulgar, misunderstood him, then forgot him. So he devoted himself to the world of engraved bids, and at the end of the year received a polite note consigning him to that other world, from which there is no return--to Cambridge. The Freshman dropped...
...with what then seemed to be defiant and unaccountable music. Critic Newman agreed with his publisher that Berlioz' story was fascinating. But, he pointed out, Berlioz was unlike most musicians. He had been able to talk about his trade, to handle words in as lively and vigorous a fashion as he handled musical notes. Berlioz' own Memoirs, according to Critic Newman, had wit, humor, raciness that made the language of his biographers seem like cold tea after champagne. Better to brush up the translation of the Memoirs than do another biography. Publisher Knopf agreed and now comes...