Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself but of the whole Elizabethan period. From the youngest Freshman who views them in the Treasure Room to the oldest grad who still remembers his courses under Professor Kittredge, all those who love literature have cause to rejoice at a gift which enriches Widener in this ever welcome fashion...
...That was all right with President Coolidge. S. 3555 proposed a Federal farm board to administer the fund. That was all right with President Coolidge. S. 3555 proposed that when the producers of a given commodity had produced more of that commodity than they could market in an "orderly" fashion, or more than they were willing to try to market with the aid of the loan fund only, that an "equalization fee" should be levied upon each unit of the commodity in question, to augment the loan fund. That was not all right with President Coolidge. S. 3555 further proposed...
When the grumbling and spatting climaxed, who should be appointed Minister of Commerce but that suave barrister M. Maurice Bokanowski. He knows the nimbleness of U. S. telephone girls from personal experience. He gets things done in Herbert Hoover fashion (TIME, March 19). Furthermore funds wherewith to buy new telephone equipment were now becoming available through the sound but dazzling financial wizardry of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, the savior of the franc (TIME...
...Lane Bryant, dressmaker, had a shrewd idea that appealed from its start to all women of ample figure. Says she: "It was my firm belief that fashion was slighting such women, was making smart dressing difficult for them. Merely supplying 'large sizes' of current styles was entirely wrong. What the woman of ample figure wanted, what I feel she must have, was a redesigning, a restyling of current fashions along slenderizing, beautifying lines. That was the simple idea that prompted me. . . . That is the idea which is today carried out in every garment we make...
...purpose of argument is after all to convince. School and college debates are prone to regard their exercise as an esoteric thing, entirely divorced from human conversation and understanding. This attitude leads to marshaling of facts and fancy, into an array which is presented in a fashion calculated only to get it all out on time. The new necessity to convince a body of intelligent fellow-beings whose sentiments have been sound already will lead inevitably toward a more careful preparation of briefs with special at tention to those qualities which make argument at once convincing and good to hear...