Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candor upon the personal and political peculiarities of the very people now opposing the Treaty, had discussed Admirals and Senators and Big-Navy propagandists in terms so frank as to stir up a hornet's nest if now made public. Conceivably the President might have analyzed in uncomplimentary fashion the attitude of the Navy's General Board on cruiser limitation or the anti-Japanese bugaboo of Senator Hiram Johnson of California, chief Senate opponent of the Treaty. Conceivably Mr. MacDonald might have expressed sympathy with Mr. Hoover's difficulties...
...Carol is King!" Next morning planes wrote "Carol" in the sky as the Lowe chamber met, every deputy in a dress suit. In orthodox Catholic fashion they voted that Carol never renounced his rights, that Mihai has never been King, that since July 20, 1927 the King of Rumania has been "Carol II." This blanket annulment, wiping out the events of three years, was passed by 310 "Yesses" over the "No" of Liberal Leader Vintila Brati-anu while his 39 Liberal henchmen abstained. Chamber and Senate then met together as the National Assembly...
From a college examination paper in English which has just come to me--the final examination in sophomore English at Yale College--we may believe that examinations are conducted in the ancient fashion of putting a premium on the memorizing of obscure passages, on cramming rather than on knowledge. I do not know whether this is the fault of Yale or of the instructor who plans the course. In my day at the University of Chicago instructors seemed to have much influence. Stodgy professors examined us in the minutiae of English literature; far-sighted men such as Robert Morss Lovett...
Into German politics last week a big red apple of discord was flung by Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald. Up to now it has been very much the fashion for German statesmen to paint their country as poor, to picture their businessmen as pressed for cash, dependent on foreign loans. With blazing frankness Herr Stegerwald revealed that today the German moneyed class have on loan abroad more than eight billion marks ($2,000,000,000). This sum would suffice to meet Germany's "crushing payments" under the Young Plan for four years...
...styles change rapidly. Yesterday's styles may be observed in the stables, today's in the drawing room. Now declining from the height of fashion is the German Shepherd. He is heading from the hearth rug to the harness room...