Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief difficulty that occurs in trying to pass judgement on "A President is Born", is that it is an unusual attempt and that it is carried out in a very unique fashion. With an objective such as it has, it is difficult to see how any book could be made really compelling and not appear forced; certainly this attempt falls short. As a story it is interesting, vivid and effective, but one feels that it should be infinitely more so. Its chief fault is that it is unnatural...
...famed Prado, boulevard of wealth and fashion, has trees down the middle, colonnaded sidewalks...
...superiors giving the alarm, asking permission to change the course. One and all, the Texas' officers pooh-poohed the young busybody, who dashed at last to Rear Admiral Victor Blue, the commandant. Admiral Blue sprang from bed, but too late. The Texas ran aground on Fire Island. In gentlemanly fashion, Admiral Blue took the blame...
...Irish silver sauce-boats for $2,500; other collectors bought in card-tables, marble clocks, lamps, figurines, inkstands, door knockers, small sofas and chairs, portraits of French ladies whose furtive, lovely faces looked down with gay bewilderment at the solemn faces of antique dealers and U. S. ladies of fashion. On the fourth day of the sale the finest pieces were brought on the platform; the buyers, in their excitement, kept crossing their knees or powdering their noses...
...George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy of the Harvard Medical School reported that cooked liver helped the body increase the number of red blood corpuscles and gradually stopped pernicious anemia. U. S. doctors tested out the liver diet to their thorough satisfaction. Dr. Seyderhelm, thorough in his fashion, used the liver treatment on 105 patients, carefully studying all their reactions. That it was entirely satisfactory was the conclusion he published at Berlin last week, in the Klinische Wochenschrift...