Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Today, however," he continued, I understand that things are greatly changed. Advertisements are solicited in the regular business fashion and the routine of the office is eliminated by secretaries and bookkeepers. The duties of a candidate are practically nothing compared with what used to be given...
...what seems to me a very fair and analytical way, the faults of Social Service work at Harvard. For some time past those who have been interested in Phillips Brooks House have realized vaguely that neighborhood work has been carried out in a very dilatory and hap-hazard fashion. That this was the fault more of the social worker himself than the officers of Phillips Brooks House, has always been apparent. But this fact, however deplorable, has been smoothed over year after year for fear of hurting the feelings of those in charge of the enterprise...
...persists in making her morning call while they are in the bath tub. Once in, nothing short of dynamite will dislodge her. Formerly, the best thing to do was to enter into the spirit of the pastime and laughingly take six or seven baths while she was reading the fashion page of last month's Vanity Fair. It would do no good to rush upon her in full undress: she was old and callous and stood her ground like a man. Neither would it avail to crawl out the window, or ring the fire alarm, or pretend to drown...
President Coolidge's fashion lecture before the National Cotton Manufacturer Association, treats a subject in which he is an undoubted authority. The President in his own quiet way has long been a critic of woman's dress. For hours he has stood on Pennsylvania Avenue watching the well-dressed ladies of Washington and remarking occasionally to the ever-present Dawes that style aren't what they used to be in the old days in Vermont an observation as subtle as it is clever...
Saturday evening in the White House finds the President, his mouth full of pins, poring over old Fashion Books "Just a touch of lace at the throat," he suggests to Mrs. Coolidge, "white fur wristlets to go with your hat, and a small cretonne bustle in the back would add distinction to the ensemble. But, oh Grace, where did you get that scrumptions scarl...