Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators, Mr. Hoover cannot play with this question in this fashion. . . . And you have no business, Mr. Hoover, to undertake to interfere with the handiwork of the Almighty...
...Navy men last week adopted a new fashion. To Commander Calvin H. Cobb of the destroyer Billingsley, bound out of St. Petersburg, Fla., for Philadelphia, came a radio from the police that a St. Petersburg girl was believed to have been smuggled aboard the Billingsley; please to make a search. Indignant, Commander Cobb searched-and found 15-year-old Cynthia Alberta Pool. She said she had been persuaded to go by a seaman named Kramer; that a married woman of St. Petersburg had planned to go too but was prevented by her husband, who appeared on the dock...
That France will have a great deal to say in defense of her position was made clear, last week, when Foreign Minister Briand announced that he too will shortly submit a tentative multilateral treaty text to the Powers concerned. Should the fashion for drafting and bandying such texts spread to a third power, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, the ensuing negotiations may well become a diplomatic cross word puzzle, titanic and inextricable. In an effort to scotch such confusion, Secretary Kellogg said in all his notes, last week...
...talent, honesty, and courage, but the fatal weakness of indecision. Having failed in love and in his chosen career, he goes to India to retrieve his honor. There, on the Kashmir frontier, he faces his great test and, of course redeems himself in a rather heroic but thoroughly satisfactory fashion...
...fathers as Baron Dalberg makes it possible for Harvard to rest its case upon the ideas of Mr. Benn, the youngest seizer of the forch that the Baron once wielded. It is sufficient to say that the predictions of the Baron have been fulfilled, but in most curious fashion. It has probably happened, as the Baron suggested it might, out of a kind of vanity. Whatever the impetus, it is a fact that learning is desirable at Harvard, and yet that curiously enough, fewer men have leisure than ever before. Still the utilitarian character of the country remains, but still...