Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent Freshman Hall robbery has brought about a feeling almost resembling panic among the University policemen. Orders have been issued to shoot on sight anyone attempting to enter a dormitory in other than the legal and recognized fashion. The idea instilled into these young and active scions of the law is not to aim at the offender's head or any damageable part of his anatomy, but attempt instead to sting him a little where it doesn't hurt so much...
...Massachusetts, the state Senate defeated a bill to repeal a fine of $100 for any woman wearing a long protruding hatpin. The House had previously passed the repealer (TIME, Mar. 9) on the ground that the law was no longer necessary. The Senate argued that fashion might repeat herself...
...face of it extremely fanciful. The picture of the old man standing out in the rain and wind with a small silk kite, which has been one of the favorite subjects of patriotic artists, is not at all accurate. If such an experiment were really handled in that fashion the experimenter would, in all probability be promptly killed...
...Denial. Claire Windsor is the latest to succumb to the current screen fashion of portraying, in one film, a young girl in her teens, and a woman of 45, thus putting screen art above mere good looks. In her latter manifestation, she dreams herself back to her girlhood stifled by her mother-living again the romance of the Spanish-American War, learning not to cramp her own daughter's style of loving. Lewis Beach's stage play, The Square Peg, here transferred to the screen, has had some of the acrid tang carefully sponged...
...cast play it in a shuffling fashion. Edgar Stehli as the idealist, Walter Abel as the sergeant and Helen Freeman as the wife were like mushrooms nodding underground. The slight piece would make a shimmering curtain-raiser, if the cast were whipped up into playing it more smartly...