Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...housing poor people. Nor is the use confined to business buildings or residences. A newspaper plant, a grain elevator, and a paper mill have invested in modern buildings. Einstein's laboratory, a Paris garage, a dentist's office and many salons of the S.S. Bremen have adopted the new fashion...
This bow to Dublin was necessary because in Dublin popular Mr. de Valera had just been elected and had taken office as "President" (i. e. Premier) of the ''Irish Free State'' (i. e. Southern Ireland). Fearfully Belfast Protestants heard that Dublin Catholics were roistering in wild Irish fashion every night, shouting that the two Irelands must become one Republic...
...country. The Government acts as impresario for all artists. A young Russian musician must pass examinations proving himself familiar with Russian politics, testifying that he has aided in some social movement like the abolition of illiteracy or alcoholism. The Government then advertises him in simple, forthright fashion. He may not call himself ''World's Greatest Tenor" as does Beniamino Gigli or "Famous Boy Violin Genius'' as does Yehudi Menuhin. Tickets for his concert will cost anywhere from 7¢ to 25¢. Factory workers then get a 60% reduction...
...reference to the tiger painted on the dashboard of Boss Tweed's old fire engine, now in the Museum of the City of New York), the Democratic Donkey and Republican Elephant. No other U. S. cartoonist has ever equaled his power, the strength of his line. Out of fashion for ten years before he died, he accepted the post of U. S. consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador from President Roosevelt, died at his post of yellow fever. Last week Critic Henry McBride had this to say of his exhibition...
...create new situations which the reporters cannot ignore. Recently, many newspapers carried pictures of the driver of an ox-cart shaking hands with President Hoover. The man was supposed to have drives his ox-cart full of Aroostook potatoes all the way from Maine to Washington. In such a fashion, the potato growen set the name of their product before the public. The actual facts of the matter were that the potatoes were loaded of from a train on the outskirts of Washington. Makers of corn syrup sent around to newspaper household departments, recipes for cooking dishes they required corn...