Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such ear-slitting, said Eliot and Eleanor Clark last week, is no more painful than piercing for old-fashioned earrings. The rabbits are placid and happy, wear warm grey flannel pajamas, take vacations in Europe, occasionally feast on ice cream and cake.
Edmund Gilligan's Boundary Against Night (1938) was an ambitious, untidy, talented novel about the Boston Police Strike, included two Bannon brothers among its characters. White Sails Crowding is told by an earlier Bannon. No less high-blooded but tidier, it is a deliberately old-fashioned story of romantic...
> For Tennessee's major league team, three old-fashioned cheers! -ED.
"Solon's peaceful revolution," says Durant, "is one of the encouraging miracles of history." He introduced a graduated income tax, created a popular assembly to check the old-fashioned aristocratic council, made the entire citizenry a panel from which jurors were chosen. The quarrelsome Athenians might not have stuck...
This squeeze may be a sign rather that the Japanese are desperate than that they are smart. They might lose their silk market forever. Last week in Wilmington, Del., Du Font's sheeny, much-publicized nylon hosiery went on sale at $1.15, $1.25, $1.35 (for different gauges), sold quickly...