Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the last two successive nights the old-fashioned pump has got mysteriously out of order. Yard cops prefer to think that the trouble is caused by its over-use rather than malicious sabotage.
When paunchy, bearded Giulio Gatti-Casazza was General Manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the Metropolitan's corps de ballet was run by his wife Rosina Galli. Balletmistress Galli, a girl with old-fashioned ideas, filled the proscenium with rose-garlanded damsels whose inexpertness became proverbial. Critics...
"Georgia and the lower South may just as well face facts-simple facts presented in the lower South by the President of the United States. Your Governor understands these facts. The purchasing power of the millions of Americans in this whole area is far too low. Most men and women...
In The Evolution of Physics, Drs. Einstein & Infeld admit that modern Quantum Theory has thrown a very powerful searchlight on the atom, but they are dissatisfied with it as a picture of reality. Quantum Theory makes use of old-fashioned absolute time, with three separate space dimensions. But each particle...
Having discovered the sparking skates of Sonja Henje, Twentieth-Century Fox has lately been putting the old-fashioned musical on ice-- something which, in more than one sense, is a splendid idea. Unfortunately for "Happy Landing," Miss Henie's latest vehicle, the story calls for too much of the old...