Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Hall has depicted sympathetically the mutual loneliness of two women; and told frankly how they appeased it in the classic fashion set by Ancient Grecian maidens on the historic Isle of Lesbos. This same theme was hymned by Sappho, universally esteemed by classicists as the greatest poetess who ever lived. To a London policeman or magistrate, however, the very words "Lesbianism" or "Sapphism" are unmentionable, vile...
...husband's papers on his sudden death a year ago. 'Besides the Petit Parisien these include the Dimanche Illustre (the "Sunday Illustrated"), La Science et la Vie, a monthly magazine of popularized science, Omnia, a magazine for automobilists. The Sunday paper is edited after the fashion of the familiar U. S. Sunday sheet, including comic strips, many of which Mme. Dupuy imports from the U. S. Even strips involving baseball are used; and if Paris does not understand the game, well, so much the worse for Paris...
...finishes it." Such is the reputation for alacrity in composition of the playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying comparatively comic snitches here and there, Author Wallace's sprig of grue was sufficiently funny, novel and grisly to provoke the intended reactions among Manhattan susceptibles. In it, moreover, Nina Gore, daughter of blind onetime (1907-12) U. S. Senator from...
...Albert had a Christmas tree for his wife, the queen at Windsor Castle; and after that its popularity was established in Britain. It was a German army that took, as well as Death, the Christmas tree to France. During the Franco-Prussian war the Germans, celebrating Christmas in their fashion, spread a love for the custom all through the invaded country. It remained for the U.S. to develop the municipal Christmas tree, erected on the public square in many a city, token of the whole community's rejoicing...
...There still is a race which says: 'Of course, I'm a businessman and music means nothing to me.' But more people are beginning to realize that they might as well boast in this fashion: 'Part of my brain doesn't work, hence music means nothing to me.' It is ceasing to be such a very great mark of distinction to be a lowbrow...