Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henderson and Palmer do warn against the old-fashioned maestro who teaches affectation and artificial pretension but they actually recommend using a teacher who "honestly understands and sympathizes with your goal" (of singing to the masses). There are many enlightened vocal teachers in the country today whose business might be...
Two men prepared themselves to cushion any thank-you-ma'ams along that road -a slight, stooped Pennsylvania Irishman with grey hair frizzled in a permanent wave, Pat Boland of Scranton; and a short, old-fashioned general law practitioner, perfecto-puffing Luther Alexander Johnson of Corsicana, Tex.
Professor Rugg's critics accused him of disrespect to history and learning. His chief critic, practical Professor Howard E. Wilson, then at University of Chicago, investigated schools to see how the Rugg "fusion" plan worked, pronounced it a failure. But Professor Wilson found that he could pin no roses...
The clever Japanese calculated that about 57% of their exports to the U. S. are raw silk, and that 52% of the silk is knitted into full-fashioned women's hosiery. The Japanese have observed that, at least in cities, U. S. women cannot do without silk stockings, and...
Outstanding among Stone & Webster orders was one to build a 32,000-kilowatt generating plant to help Big Steel's huge plants in Pittsburgh's Monongahela Valley. Big Steel, fresh from a $642,000,000 modernization program, still has more old-fashioned equipment to replace than its smaller...