Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, doddering old General Adolph Messimy (in 1914 Minister of War) created a sensation by calmly announcing that he, not M. Malvy, was the lover of Mata Hari. He said: "During many months, she, by all the means of seduction she knew how to employ in incomparable fashion, tried to acquire the right to call herself my mistress. I found her charming, but full of mystery, enticing, disquieting. I had the imprudence not only to tell her that but to write...
...Merry Merry" is, in fact, preeminently a dancing show. It is for her dancing that Miss Marle Saxon has, temporarily at least, usurped that corner of this Senior's mind ostensibly reserved for the Scotch imitators of Chaucer. When she sang, in a pleasingly pretty fashion, we found our inner brain pondering, despite ourselves, on the virtues of Dryden's prose style. When she spoke, in a delightfully mellifluous drawl, we could not entirely forget the family life of Milton, but when she danced--divisionals, oh yes, when does that examination come, and if so, what...
...notion that the taught may somewhat teach their teachers ? a notion that went out of fashion as formal universities came in at the end of the Middle Ages, but which has been revived of recent years ? was reiterated last week by ten Harvard undergraduates who submitted the fruits of a five-month scrutiny of the socioeducational plant and plan to which they had submitted their so-called formative years. Unlike similar surveys lately made at Dartmouth and Bowdoin, the young Harvard gentlemen had been urged to their task by no authority higher than their own creative curiosity. They...
Swatting their visitors about the head, neck and shoulders, wobbling their netted sticks in that peculiar fashion invented by the Indians but copied to perfection by clever palefaces, flirting the hard little ball hither and yon over the field and running, running, running at a pace too fleet and steady even for fit Britishers, the Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pa.) lacrosse players last week plunked home 11 goals to 8 plunked by an invading combination from Oxford and Cambridge. Surprise and delight were universal. Just previously, the formidable British dozen had crushed Pennsylvania...
...Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-65 (Edited by Alexander Blacker Kerr)? Cleone Knox ($2.50). A mettlesome Irish nymph's intimacies...