Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris they went. When Peter had time to spare from his other pursuits, he thought on Georgina and was faithful to her after his fashion...
Josephine, of course, comes. In characteristic feminine fashion, now that he has done what she told him to, she is outraged at him for doing it. She stands outside his cage and tells him he must be mad, he has disgraced her; then she melts, says it was all her fault, and she loves him anyway. The upshot of it is that she vows she will marry him, come to live in the cage with him. But the authorities, it appears, have already decided that in the contingency of his marrying, he will automatically be freed from his contract...
VOGUE'S BOOK OF ETIQUETTE?by the Editors of Vogue?Condé Nast ($4.00). No doubt we have improved somewhat since the days back in the fabulous forties when manuals on correct behavior advised their readers in all seriousness to "omit the annoying foreign) fashion of taking water into your mouth [when finger bowls were passed], rinsing and gargling it around, and them spitting it back into the glass"; and, ire another place: "The rising generation of elegants in America are particularly requested to observe that, in polished! society, it is not quite comme il faut for gentlemen to blow their...
...incidental music. Liliom audiences may still recall and whistle his Look Out, Here Come the Damn Police, as vividly as they remember the acting of Schildkraut. He composed the pantomime used as a prelude to John Drink-water's Mary Stuart. He arranged the old songs used in Fashion, and wrote A Kiss in Xanadu, which provided the loveliest moments in Beggar on Horseback. He is now the official "incidentalist" for the serious metropolitan stage...
...refinement, coupled with a good sense of climax and dramatic values. It is sufficiently modernistic to tickle the ear with tricky surprises, cleverly produced as from a convenient bag, without being discordant enough to baffle or antagonize those of conventional tastes. Personally, following (as always) the latest musical fashion, Taylor wears his hair short, dresses well, is an animated conversationalist. Twenty years ago, no one would have taken him for a real musician. Times have changed in St. Cecilia's realm...