Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...affords the means of a certain amount of boon cordiality. The harm which the drinking of the college man does is not personal, but by example. There is a proportion of our citizens by no means small who, while vociferously disparaging the college man, yet copy after a fashion his method of dressing, his method of talking, and his method of drinking. The college man may not be a source to them of the desire for drink; but he is an inspiration...
...Pendennis." Superficially it is attained, owing to the well known talent in production of Mr. Iden Payne. Settings, costumes, etc., are arranged to the key of 1830, the age of tasseled canes and wonderful waistcoats, when a copy of Don Juan lay on the dressing tables of ladies of fashion; a picture of old England in its autumn, smiling through the mist of factory smoke just beginning to rise. Unfortunately a production set in so delightful a key has to be something more than a mere picture, or even a mere dramatization; it ought to be a play...
...thing can be said of it together: it contains one of the most decorative groups of ladies I have ever seen in one production. One after one, we watch them immolated on the alter of that very uninteresting young man, Arthur Pendennis, played in a restrained fashion by Mr. Walter Kingsford, -- the beautiful young mother, the lovely giantess in the prologue, the exquisite little Cockney laundress in the first...
...accustomed to the breeziness of the free-and-easy West, but it can hardly be taken to mean that there is less of real democracy at Cambridge than in the college towns on the Coast. Harvard democracy is accustomed to express itself in a less demonstrative fashion, that is all, and although it lies deeper beneath the surface, its presence cannot be denied...
...California is so far away that it is hard for us, in our restricted sphere, to see whether they are doing anything at all. We never fully realize the wide scope of a great movement until it is clearly summarized for us, as Mr. Champ has done in good fashion. Again, Mr. Champ in his exposition, "Harvard Tries Its Sea-Legs," gives an interesting account of the Naval Reserve to the man who knows little of the fledgling branch of the service...