Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with references to the cultural. And the intellectual ten minutes of reading a day raise multiple new literateurs. A new literature is springing from Penlmism and the literary aspirations of char women. Bennie merely guessed and guessed well. Anything intellectual, meat market or morgue, will draw a modern crowd. Fashion is for the moment bowing to culture, so colleges and conversation must suffer accordingly...
...time seems to have come when the promise of publication can force odd follies from the lips of churchmen. Advising the male delegates at a diocesian conference of the Methodist Church to grow mustaches as the final gesture of a masculinity truncated by the fell strokes of female fashion, Bishop Collirs Denny remarked, "That's all the women have left us. They cut their hair and wear men's clothes, but they can't wear a mustache. It is your badge of masculinity...
...ability to leer in a naughty fashion will often earn a witless fellow a reputation as a wag; luck in getting his books suppressed will bring an author to renown even though no one has ever read them. Shrewd Douglas H. Cooke, President of the Leslie-Judge Co., may not therefore have been altogether stunned when he was told last week that his funny-paper, Judge, was barred from the mails...
...Fashion Note...
...wire came the voice of the reporter, telling how he had been refused entrance to the Del Fey Club; how Thaw sat within, busy with his tiddling, all unseen by the press. "I'll come down myself," snapped Mr. Payne. He, 33, a viveur himself in a controlled fashion, is a member of the Club. His face - curly-mouthed, snub-nosed, the face of a bespectacled Puck-is well known to "Texas" Guinan, famed proprietress. Also, it is known, most unpleasantly known, to Harry K. Thaw. That is why the other patrons of the club gasped when they...