Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Possibly it might be well to have such a body of persons in this country able to deal in behalf of clients with the Congress of the U. S. ... If it be lobbying to appear in behalf of persons affected in such situation, then lobbying in a decent fashion would appear not only to be proper but necessary and justified from all standpoints...
...travel as a bridge over the depression is to bring any real advantages, be young avoiding the evil of overcrowding the professions, a new fashion for the "American in Paris" must be developed, and the Gershwin tradition abandoned: Americans, like the rude British, have been in the habit of carrying their bath-tubs and their customs with them in their peregrinations; serious study of foreign life can be made only if the traveler lays aside his attitudes, and adopts those of his hosts, as he adopts their language. When the American student is willing to do this perhaps he will...
...fashion to say that Irving Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band" started the ragtime craze; that the blues came in when William Christopher Handy took "St. Louis Blues" North; that George Gershwin took jazz into the concert rooms. No one ever accused Composer Kern of starting anything. He has simply written a great many songs of which people never seem to tire, polite, modulated tunes reflective of the musical study he put in in Germany. And he was the first to use saxophones popularly, in 1913.* Smoothly played they seemed to suit his music...
...movements are greatly exaggerated. In reaching for an object, the arm will wander aimlessly. The hand, attempting to grasp something, may remain fixed in that position, and is relaxed with difficulty. In the early years the patient may learn to walk after a fashion, and the gait is quite characteristic. The toes scrape along the floor, the heels are not brought down, and the spasm of the thigh muscles forces the individual to move in a cross-legged fashion. Speech is difficult, and not infrequently profuse salivation with drooling tends to reflect against the normal mentality of the patient...
...invention, intended to empty a distressed plane whether or not the passengers have the nerve and wit to jump in orderly fashion, is the work of one Harry P. Trusty. Last week he kept details secret, said only that a "series of drums" furnishes power to swing the seats out, that a twelve-passenger cabin may be evacuated in five seconds...