Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former President William T. Cosgrave. Their first pronunciamento attacked Communism "or any disguised form of it introduced surreptitiously into the country." In addition the Comrades Association attacked long-necked President de Valera and his tariff war with Great Britain: "We regard as charged with extremely dangerous potentialities the new fashion of branding as traitors certain public men with whom we have had the privilege of being associated in defense of the state. Should any Irishman come to harm as the result of 'traitor pointing' the consequences may lead to a deplorable condi tion of reprisal and counter-reprisal...
...Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, had been in Los Angeles last week he would have seen them inscribed in huge letters on the inner wall of the main gateway of Los Angeles Olympic Stadium. He would have seen also a crowd of 105,000 flowing in orderly fashion into a stadium which contained 30 miles of seats and cost $1,700,000. A lover of the grandiloquent, the ceremonious. Baron de Coubertin would have been charmed by the gay, prodigious pageant of band-music, homing-pigeons, hymns, flags, oaths, Vice President Curtis and 2,000 athletes in bright uniforms...
...Baldwin, in figure, face and manner the image of John Bull, saved the inter view by declaring in handsome English fashion: "The whole Conference is above parties and personalities. We are in the true cricket spirit. We don't care tup pence who makes the runs, so long as the Empire as a whole wins a victory...
...Yours is the only known club in this country acting in such a fashion and we feel that your future tournaments will be more successful and our stay with you more pleasant if you will adopt a different attitude toward the men who play the game...
...whites under the leadership of a drunken riverboat captain (Richard Dix). They stand off Voronsky with a machinegun, between intervals of comic relief by Zasu Pitts as a handkerchief-wringing tourist and Edward Everett Horton as a timid lover. Gwili André, a beauteous mannequin who deserted the fashion magazines for Hollywood, is the mysterious refugee suspected of being Voronsky's chattel. She falls in love with Richard Dix who spurns her, until in the last reel they all escape with surprising ease to the river. No credible picture of modern China, Roar of the Dragon is fair melodrama...