Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class by going to the lecture directly from the train, before he even put his bags in his room. The lecture was too much for our friend, however, and he gently dozed off. Noticing this, the watchful professor walked up beside the student and, in the approved conductor's fashion, yelled. "Back Bay Station." Whereupon, the student suddenly started up, grabbed his bags and ran out of the room. Daily Pennsylvanian...
...perfectly successful. It is pointed out that, because there still remained a minority whom the rental and benefit payments were insufficient to induce to surrender their independence of action, the Congress has gone further and, in the Bankhead Cotton Act, used the taxing power in a more directly minatory fashion to compel submission. This progression only serves more fully to expose the coercive purposes of the so-called tax imposed by the present Act. It is clear that the Department of Agriculture has properly described the plan as one to keep a noncooperating minority in line. This is coercion...
...overestimated his Administration's capacity in this respect. Of $10,569,000,000 which he foresaw the U. S. spending in fiscal 1934, only $6,745,000,000 was actually disposed of. Year by year afterward he overestimated the New Deal's spendings in only less conservative fashion. But with an election only ten months off this kind of conservatism no longer appeals to him. Said he last week: "The finances of the Government are in better condition than at any time in the past seven years. I say this because, starting with the autumn...
...told him that something was wrong. The most Chris could bring himself to believe was that it was nothing much. He did the proper thing, according to his lights, in beating Anne nearly dead, then scotching the gossip and his doubts by forgiving her and himself in hearty stoker fashion. Feeling still somehow inadequate, he promised her that after the next trip he would get a job ashore, not leave her so much alone...
...unadorned English now ideas, and trying always to appraise them judiciously, is underrated for lack of appreciation of what the youth conceives to be the basic purpose of writing. The question in its last analysis, is one's choice between the shown shoddy road of ultra extreme but passing fashion and the genuine all-wool garment of conservative...