Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of War Weeks has several times intimated his absolute confidence in the trustworthiness of his servants. He said so in outright fashion to the Filipinos who objected to Governor General Wood, his legate in the Philippines. Two weeks ago a Republican insurgent in Congress presented a resolution for an investigation of General Wood's stewardship in the islands. That was an indication that there were rumors in the political winds...
...chief question that this event presented was that of a successor to the post. A dozen or more names were presented, but the President kept his counsel to himself in true Coolidge fashion. The choice of a successor to Mr. Farley and the presentation of a new shipping policy by the Administration were matters of momentary expectation...
...millionaire who is threatened, first by a letter and then given two hours to live, by a telephone message. His daughter and heir, in love with an Irish gentleman, is also warned, and after the father is sacrificed in the interest of melodrama, slain in the most mysterious, unaccountable fashion, the effort to save the daughter becomes the mainspring. There is a good, rugged detective, who is not entirely without intelligence, like most stage detectives and a fair share of off-stage ones, and the millionaire's secretary, who assists in throwing the audience onto the wrong scent, helped...
Equipped with, among other things, a mustache in no wise cropped short after the fashion of the day, but flowing in the largeness of the decade before last, Moriz Rosenthal played his first recital in New York. For half of a normal lifetime he has stood as a symbol of all-around pianistic mastery. And in his recital he displayed the prodigious technique that has become a tradition of him and he displayed as well an imposingly architectural interpretation of Liszt and Beethoven. But Rosenthal enjoys a distinction other than purely musical, that...
...young college student, used to independent thinking, eager for the truth, and anxious to enter the church, cannot be blamed for being somewhat discouraged by an altitude of opposition to all original effort and enterprise. If the young people of today lack religion,--and it has been the fashion for their elders to say so frequently particularly since the war; is it heresy to suggest that it is the church which lacks life rather than they? Young men will think if they are given something to think about; and most young men, although they hesitate to admit it in their...