Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It looked like the finale of an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration in The Bronx's Yankee Stadium one night last week. The murky sky was suddenly illuminated with scores & scores of blinding flashes of light as photographers frantically realized that they had to get a whole evening...
Mr. Ford's educational ideas are a curious mixture of the old-fashioned and modern. He calls his schools "the McGuffey type," and they reproduce as much as possible the old little red schoolhouse. No advocate of mass production in education, he likes small schools, small classes, individual instruction...
Trickier to get on and off than an old-fashioned boiled shirt, hemmed in by a landscape as disheveled as a Congressman's collar, the trapped and trammeled Washington-Hoover Airport has since 1926 been a fliers' nightmare. Landing or taking off in the big multi-motored planes...
The Two Bouquets (by Eleanor & Herbert Farjeon; produced by Marc Connelly in association with Bela Blau) is a mannerly, mock-genteel operetta of Victorian days which delighted Londoners for almost nine months, will not delight the U. S. so long. It does a fairly good job of trying to eat...
All this is positive liberalism. All this repudiates the old-fashioned concepts under which Williams developed. These concepts were mostly of a negative character: to present both sides of a question, to tolerate opposite viewpoints, to disdain from actual participation in contemporary struggles. Today Williams is becoming imbued with a...