Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations, to be sure, has tried to interfere, but in such a mild fashion that it seems probable that the League is afraid of lowering the prestige of the Liberal-Democratic party which is now in power in Japan by giving too many orders, and thereby not giving Japan enough time to assert its own authority in Manchuria." This party, however, Professor Porter believes, will find it difficult to step the activities of the Japanese soldiers in Manchuria because the military operations there are being conducted by General Tanaka, who is leader of the old militaristic party that...
...National). A minor cycle of juvenile comedies (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Skippy, Forbidden Adventure) has immeasurably improved this branch of entertainment in the cinema. Where such pictures a few years ago attempted nothing more ambitious than antic farce, as exemplified in the Our Gang comedies, there is now a fashion for being lifelike as well as funny. The fashion is eminently becoming to Penrod...
...same level. It is to be regretted that there is not more in the number in the way of book reviews and musical and dramatic criticism, but all in all, the Advocate opens its sixty-third--or is it its sixty-fourth -- consecutive year in sound and creditable fashion, a review rather than a journal...
...same date offered: "If the Earth Becomes Uninhabitable-Where Shall We Go?," with brilliant illustrations; "Mystery of American Lady Curzon's Vanished Millions." "Still Another 'Betty Coed' Tragedy"; 'Judas the Hero of a Play That Has Startled London"; "Lacquered Hair Women's Newest Freak Fashion"; "Contradictions of Nature Which Puzzle Science"; "Real Nightmare Pictures Painted While She 'Dreams...
...tabloid New York Daily News, like many a reader of any newspaper, skips the editorials. But one day last week the News's editorial column was calculated to arrest the most cursory eye. On it appeared the picture of a pudgy male, clad only in underdrawers, squatting Gandhi-fashion at a spinning wheel. The body was the body of any corpulent, middle-aged man but the head was the head of Herbert Hoover...