Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, told a story about both of them: "The first time I visited Buckingham Palace as a guest of the King, a distinguished looking man, whom I had been informed was Lord Dawson, came and shook my hand in a most familiar fashion, saying, 'Have you forgotten me?' Then he reminded me of a night when we had a frugal supper together in a Bloomsbury restaurant. . . . Our combined wealth was insufficient to save us from walking to Holloway station." With his permanent amazement at his own rise to eminence Mr. MacDonald...
...only a few weeks, a trainer must always have a large stock on hand. New, untrained fleas are kept in bottles, for two or three weeks, handled daily. When the time comes to train a performer, the end of a thin gold wire 2 in. long is fastened collar-fashion about its neck. This collar must be loose enough to allow the flea to eat, but tight enough so it cannot jump through. When fleas are not performing they are kept in boxes with their feet entangled in cotton. Fleamen say they can tell a flea's possibilities...
...been a poor week for fighting planes. A patrol of six fighters defending the Blue base saw a single red bomber approaching. Not recognizing the Prince's plane they dove at it with whoops of joy, raked it with imaginary machine guns, "sat on its tail" in approved fashion, forced it ignominiously to earth. Wales, grinning good-naturedly, admitted his theoretical death...
Paul Poiret, always theatrical, startled fashion scouts with high Elizabethan ruffs on formal afternoon dresses, with lame skirts over lace trousers, an evening sensation...
...Margot's blueblood uncle and a doubly famous author under two pseudonyms, the acceptance by Faulkner's publisher friend of Harvey's diary of these events as a new, greater novel- all this is the work of moments. Author Hatch writes in a cheery, bourgeois fashion, helps a hot night pass painlessly...