Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sherman rather subtly draws for us the smug delight with which two sisters thrust at one another with kindly malice. Farther on, we have a romance of sorority life wherein the benefits of coeducation (absit omen!) are faithfully set down. Now both authors write of love after the college fashion, and accordingly you are bound to recognize some undergraduate friend "be he scholar, be he spark". Consider, for example, the diplomatic telephone call, the battle of wits in the margin of a library book, and there...
...took no mistresses.] Suppressed sentimentality needed a field for ardour, fancy yearned for an artistic friendship. . . . And he found it all in Count Philip Eulenburg, to whom he was most fervently attached. . . . Whether his nature was inherently incapable of devoted affection for a women ... he followed the fashion of his time and group, wherein there was an abundance of male friendships...
Following, the fashion of Russian singers, the rehearsal will last three hours and a half, with intermissions for the benefit of the performers...
...wear fetching rigs--ah no, no indeed. There are few more charming sights than to see them flooding into the Cooperative at dusk, trim in their little middies and albeit laughing gaily and swinging their green bags over their shouldrs in wanton manner. But the Post's Fashion Editor or Editress or what you have says that "Radcliffe girls have no incentive to dress smartly, since Harvard men insist on being the most slovenly and 'un-pressed' college men in the country." This bit of libel received intelligent and succinct comment from two of the Radcliffe seniors who, after perusing...
...detective, a furtive maid, mesh Cynthia-Celia in mystery. Apparently Celia-Cynthia is a criminal. Cynthia-Celia slowly finds out what kind, at the same time falling in love with the returned husband, who is puzzled but suspects no substitution, . . . Out of such stuff did Greek and Roman comedians fashion oldtime sidesplitters. Sometimes the situations were allowed to become broad. Author Webster, deft veteran, had ample ingenuity to twist his twins with the decorum and happy ending required of a first-rate American Magazine serial...