Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking in rebuttal, Chapman spoke in brilliant fashion, summing up in a very few words all the argument of the affirmative...
...once it was common to blame money as the root of all evil, so now it is the fashion to blame the Ph.D. degree. If this continues, a reaction within the universities will force upon the graduate student a certainly arid scholarship. Of course the scholarly side of the graduate work is now stressed. But such must be the case. Unless a man has gone through this mill or is a genius, he cannot know his subject. And there are not many geniuses in this country. Writers like these attackers of the Ph.D. want personality stressed. The CRIMSON...
...attend school clad in knickerbockers. Twice daily for three weeks Virginia had been sent to the school door, twice daily been viewed with alarm and sent home by officials who were shocked to see her spindly extremities encased separately instead of draped in unison. Mrs. Allen, no stickler for fashion, no crusader for a moral cause, merely clung to her point that Virginia's education should not be interrupted pending the extension of her wardrobe...
That dialogue kept recurring in the back of the coach's mind in tantalizing fashion, until he finally remembered the plan of battle with which it was connected, and realized with great elation that the Little Corporal had just as good as licked Pennsylvania for him already...
When asked about her training rules furlong distance swimming, Miss Ederle stated. "Oh, I eat whatever I want whenever I want it. Before swimming the channel, for instance, I had some cornbread, half a broiled chicken, and some coffee. Of course one can't eat in a civilized fashion while touring in theatres. But I still manage to get my three meals a day. I find that is sufficient for training...