Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...columns were headed: Confidential Guide of College Courses. The editors had had the temerity to assess the curriculum from a student point of view, to give underclassmen (especially freshmen) the benefit of upper-classmen's experience, even to criticize professorial abilities in direct, humorous and detailed fashion...
That universities can afford to pay this, Dr. Bohn maintains in good scholarly fashion by printing a list of some recent donations to institutions of the "higher" learning, and adding up the sum-$1,585,500,000. Said...
...line dramatic critics have recently been aghast at the impertinence of the King's Way theatre in London in producing "Hamlet" in modern settings and modern costumes. In this production the melancholy Dane himself wore a well-tailored pair of knickerbockers. Ophelia went raving mad in the old regrettable fashion, even though quite up to date with a boyish bob and scandalously short skirt; and Laertes proved himself an adept at inhaling cigarettes. On the face of it, the play thus produced appeals as a clever burlesque; yet the producers seem to have been quite serious, being convinced that, after...
...gentlemen for conforming to the truth is very laudable, but the surprising thing of course is that this zeal has been so long in manifesting itself. Why was not the word removed from the marriage service long ago? It became obsolete when the caveman's cudgel went out of fashion. For that matter why was it ever put in at all? Of course it found its way in at the instigation of some blundering male. But what man had the temerity to believe that exacting a woman's promise to obey would give him the mastery...
...imagine what a furor this news will cause in the "What the Well-Dressed Man Will Wear" columns in Vanity Fair and theatre programs. Having missed being the heralds of a new age, Cholly Knickerbocker and Beaunash will probably commit suicide. It may soon become the fashion for engaged Columbia couples to exchange compacts at Christmas, perfectly assured that their presents will satisfy; and, beyond doubt, everyone will be rejoiced to see some saint in the compacts which haberdashers have always had on display along with perfume sprays and manicure sets...