Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adding the votes of two-fifths of the Law School to the much more complete poll of the undergraduates conducted by the Crimson two weeks ago, which covered three-fourths of the college. Perhaps the Club would do well to get down to business in a really serious fashion and investigate the School of City Planning which has only eleven members. If they canvass that institution as they did the Law School, only four men need vote, and if they should be Democrats, victory is assured. Again the School of Landsape Architecture with its 19 members would boost the Democratic...
...sacrificed his first vacation in 46 years in the cause of good government, was mentioned by an introductory speaker, Mr. Taft characteristically stated: "This is no sacrifice on my part. I have been waiting 50 years to attack the spoils system and champion the Merit System in this fashion. Now my doctors have refused to let me go on!" While recuperating in California, Mr. Taft is actively directing the policy of this Association...
...real achievement of Grant's Administration was the settlement of the Alabama Claims by the first great arbitration of modern history, in which Fish, able, conciliatory, determined, blocked Sumner's extravagant demand that England pay for the prolongation of the Civil War in the same fashion that he blocked Secretary of War Rawlins' demand for an attack on Spain. By patience, vigilance and frequent threats to resign, he prevented worse Presidential blunders than those that disgraced Grant's two Administrations...
...Puritans probably had a better time than the Rotarians at that. The Pursuit of happiness is an inalienable right which most of our free citizens exert in an inept and usually futile fashion, and if we may assume Professor Hocking wrote his speech after a visit to a night club it is easy enough to get the point of his remarks. --N. Y. World-Telegram
...magazine set forth its principles and policies thus: "We wish to have some fun in this paper. . . . We shall try to domesticate as much as possible of the casual cheerfulness that is drifting about in an unfriendly world. . . . We shall have something to say about religion, about politics, fashion, society, literature, the stage, the stock exchange, and the police station, and we will speak out what is in our mind as fairly, as truthfully, and as decently as we know...