Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the biggest thing on the air is a dummy and the biggest thing in moving pictures is a septet of gnomes America is certainly tottering toward the fiery pit, albeit in a pleasantly pixilated fashion. A nation, like a human being, is most successfully judged by what if does in its leisure hours, and by using the films as an index it is a simple thing to trace the growth of these United States...
...general, it is also a period of radicalism, radicalism that is usually cooled later by the tempering effects of worldly experience. It has long been the fashion among students to oppose conservatism; and those with conservative opinions, no matter how original they may be, are often regarded as the unthinking offspring of the upper crust, with opinions borrowed from their tycoon fathers. There is little glory for the young reactionary, while his brother "red" may easily bask in the public gaze merely by staging a demonstration...
...Britain and Eire." He proposed an all-Ireland parliament, full representation therein for Ulster, and guarantees protecting Protestant minorities. It was a shrewd proposal, for Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon's treatment of the Ulster Catholics has a none too pleasant odor for English nostrils. Having scored in this fashion, Statesman de Valera agreed with Mr. Chamberlain to let the subject drop...
...four axles fit into pockets in the body of the car (see cut). As the top of these is above the coach's low centre of gravity, the tendency of the body roll on curves is inward instead of outward as on an ordinary car. Airplane fashion, the car banks into the curve, vastly increasing both comfort and steadiness. Lateral and horizontal restraint of the body is achieved by rubberized links between the inside end of the trucks and the lower portion of the car's body. Result is a full-size passenger coach whose floor...
...after a buzz saw cut off the fingers of a German-born wood turner named John Jacob Bausch, he went tc work selling spectacles in partnership with one Henry Lomb. When Founder Bausch'< son, Edward, learned to fashion microscopes, and sell them, too, Bausch & Lomb began to prosper. Smart Edward Bausch established contacts with the famed German firm of Carl Zeiss in 1890 and before long Bausch & Lomb was using Zeiss patents with exclusive rights to the U. S. market. Shortly thereafter Zeiss bought one-fifth of Bausch & Lomb stock and warmed by increasing royalties from Rochester, began schooling...