Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SILENCE?H. B. Warner, some detectives and a girl unravel a murder mystery in breathless, if not particularly important, fashion...
...little figure, spry as a stoat, in grey flannel trousers, white sleeveless sweater, bobbed this way and that, swung his Bright arm flail-fashion, tried to make his legs into springs. It was the Prince of Wales. He was trying for the amateur squash racquets championship of England. His opponent was one T. Bevan of the Guards. The scene was the Bath Club, London. How was he doing, this agile prince? His service was clever, his backhand singularly strong. Now and then he said something aloud in a voice at once fierce and hearty. "Well played." He said that over...
Musing about books for the North American Review, a reviewer bethought her of Flapdragon. Said she: ". . . . has the game gone out of fashion with seasonable snow, brown bowls of ale with roasted crabs in 'em, and night-watchmen, and the life of the great country houses. . . .? We used to play Flapdragon, I remember, as it drew to midnight, while we waited for the bells of the New Year. On the polished table in the dining-room was placed the biggest dish in the house, a crackled, oven-browned, blue-and-white Victorian with a channel and a gravy puddle...
...very still room on that thoroughfare, a courtly company gathered last week. Financiers, famed beauties, serene old ladies. Day faded; lights pricked out along the Avenue. There was no stir, no chatter of departing guests in the still room-the gallery of M. Jacques Seligmann. Women of fashion, men of affairs, all strangely stayed when they should have gone home to dress for dinner. They did not go because they had lent their faces to the Loan Exhibition of the Society of the Art Patrons of America. In one corner stood Otto H. Kahn, international banker-a suave, stocky, domineering...
...child born out of wedlock, are (or is) compelled to support that child. The current Columbia Law Review points out that, in the main, the rights of the child, the duties of the parents and the relations of both to the community are determined in a rather widely varying fashion by the legislative enactments of the several states. The laws of many of the states, such as Louisiana, still show the effect of the once general belief that illicit intercourse is discouraged by casting a stigma on its offspring. Arizona, on the other hand, is a world pioneer in abolishing...