Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years Herbert Hoover has been President of the United States. During that time he has been the target for every American who is suffering from the present depression and in characteristic fashion wishes to place responsibility on the powers that be, and particularly on the President. During that time Herbert Hoover has faced greater problems than any peace-time President has ever had to face before. Not a day has passed that he has not devoted all of his waking hours in an attempt to solve those problems. He has never lost patience and never lost courage, and never...
Respighi meant his Maria Egiziaca to be mounted simply so as to suggest the old mystery plays. Mary of Egypt (German Charlotte Boerner) sang capably last week but, for the rest, the Philharmonic production was amateurish to a degree that Toscanini would never have tolerated. In his own miraculous fashion Toscanini might even have made the drab, derivative music take on color, sound significant...
...characteristic of the late period of prosperity was the fashion for hostile biographies of the great figures of American History, a fashion which virtually ended with the publication of Edgar Lee Master's "Lincoln the Man", and the death of Lytton Strachey. It is significant that the recent trend has been toward a harsh exposure of the foremost American capitalists, as though in vicarious revenge for the collapse which their system has suffered. The figures who were cynically endured in their decade of triumph are savagely caricatured today. Thus J. M. Leonard in "The Tragedy of Henry Ford" just published...
...times the book is a mere exposition of Mr. Kirstein's erudition, but not often; at others it expresses truly deep and intense feeling. There is little description and less comment. The story is told in a straightforward fashion by convincing conversation in short scenes that are admirably contrasted...
...homely squash courts complete the physical facilities of the House. They serve the dual purpose of affording exercise and screening in modest fashion the execrable frame houses with their clothes lines that form a bleachers for the Mather courtyard...