Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that an African potentate presented Queen Maria Theresa, the consort of Louis, with a Negro dwarf. So fond of the monstrous little character did the Queen become, that her ladies too acquired dwarfs. Soon it became a fashion. The affection which these ladies lavished upon their horrible pets was touching and delightful. Maria Theresa, indeed, would often invite her dwarf...
...Taft's young niece Elinor Herron, also came into the public eyes last week, when she paraded at a Chicago fashion show in silk bloomers and a smoking jacket. It was her debut as a mannequin. Miss Herron, versatile, has studied ballet dancing in Paris intends to be an architect...
...that the Court had said, in clumsy, Naval fashion, was that whereas experts had been on hand with good plans and execution, their virtue was not shared by their commander, Rear Admiral Brumby. By good staff work rather than good commanding had that little been done which was done. When the busy pro-Brumbians professed incomprehension of the court's sentence: "He had not the familiarity with the essential details of construction of submarines and the knowledge of rescue vessels, and the knowledge of the actual work being carried on by his subordinates necessary to direct intelligently the important...
...Manhattan, Mrs. J. Stuart Tompkins read of Jacqueline, was piqued into bragging of Boulderwall, her Great Dane house dog. Never permitted to bark, Boulderwall's lips have learned to fashion sounds to the pattern of human speech. Intelligent, she answers simple questions in a voice that is clear, and high-pitched...
...Baldwin, with characteristic inadvertence, allowed the great news to leak out in such fashion that alert U. S. correspondents and their papers were able to scoop London by almost 24 hours. This caused a loss to British rubber men which London Rubber Magnate Arthur Anthony Baumann estimated at ?7,000,000. He added caustically, "10 Downing Street [the Prime Minister's residence] is really unfit to govern the Empire...