Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smart, blase Deauville was almost surprised, last week, when dapper M. Andre Gustave Citroen, famed "Henry Ford of France," sat as judge upon a male fashion parade and upon a bevy of diving Adonises...
...Fashion displays such as that at Deauville were explicitly condemned by a general pontification of last week from the Vatican's famed semi-official news organ Osservatore Romano. Lamenting for the Globe in general, Osservatore cried: "Immorality is still vast. Sufficient proof is afforded by the Press with its audacious articles and by fashions which are ever more bold and unseemly...
...their delegates and quick to supply them. They will be, one should suppose, gay and business-like at the same time: "nothing too much ' will be their motto and tired of the exaggerations which it is sometimes their business to invent, they will be happy in normal fashion, without drums and songs and blatant rallies...
...affair reacted upon the Laurentano family in intricate fashion. The prince's vulgar bride eloped with the widower of the murdered lady-friend. Lando barely escaped the island where he had abetted the riots. Sicily was put under martial law, and the old Garibaldino Mauro, frenzied by the impertinence of upstart socialists, fared forth with his medals and pistols of 1860 to assist the state troopers. These unimaginative souls mistook him for a rioter, and shot him in a street fight...
Some day the New York or Chicago police may tyrannize over honest citizens in such outrageous fashion as to move the Congress of the U. S. to investigate. Such an emergency might cause the City of New York or of Chicago to call General John Joseph Pershing to the post of Police Commissioner, in hope of restoring public confidence in policemen. Conceivably a great lawyer and statesman, such as Charles Evans Hughes, might say, in speaking of the application of a police third degree to some young woman: "Every father of an American girl sees in the affair of Miss...