Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gaunt, bumptious Colonel Giffin and his wife took a fancy to sycophantic Lieut. Smith and his wife, took them into the Giffin home at Goshen early last year. Deprived though they were of the conveniences of an army post, the Giffins, Smiths, et al. worked, drank, played in traditional fashion. Known throughout the army for his capacity, his peculiar humor and his misadventures, Colonel Giffin was the card of a clique who thought the hot foot was good fun and snatched hats from fellow barflies. Lieut, and Mrs. Smith lived with and on the Giffins for three months, incurred...
...Martin 130, built for Pan American's transpacific route in 1935. Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small balloons to drop behind her in hare-hounds fashion to show her course, kites for an emergency radio aerial, a shotgun and fishing tackle in case she piled up on a coral reef, enough food for 15 people for a month. But not all the gadgets in the world could save her if she smacked the water hard enough...
...piano playing, of a singer's vibrato. "One is at once impressed," admits Psychologist Seashore, "with the appalling task which this inceptive science has assumed for itself, and how undeveloped the work is within this field." Dr. Seashore goes after his needle-in-a-haystack task in impressive fashion. But he does not succeed in explaining why people like music...
Texas Democrats proceeded to write in a fashion beyond the blackest dreams of old politicos to whom Amateur O'Daniel was a radio freak two months ago, a passing nuisance as late as four weeks ago. On returns from 242 of 254 counties, the No. 1 political phenomenon of 1938 appeared to have received a clear majority, thus to have won the Democratic nomination (equivalent to election) without the formality of a runoff. One of the minority who did not vote for Mr. O'Daniel was Mr. O'Daniel. He had not paid his $1.75 poll...
...short jerk of his arms and a quick kick of his legs, sits up almost straight at the end of each stroke. This freak style he developed two years ago on New Jersey's Rancocas Creek, hard by his father's fruit farm, after rowing in orthodox fashion on the University of Pennsylvania crew. He can row for miles at 40, can maintain a speed of 12 miles an hour over a mile and a quarter course. Last year, after running away with the U. S. and Canadian sculling championships with machine-like ease, oarsmen dubbed...