Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sonja is discovered by small-time theatrical producer, Adolf Menjou, who sees a vision of "dancing on ice", one hundred skaters, a symphony, orchestra, Madison Square Garden, spangles, and spotlights and Greta of course. Induced to be featured with his troupe. Greta is nearly disqualified in the games because of...
Reader Schrankel, accustomed to the ordinary type of aircraft engine in which the propeller shaft is also the crankshaft, has not realized that in the Hispano-Suiza moteur canon the crankshaft drives through gears an entirely separate propeller shaft. This straight shaft is hollow. The superiority of the new moteur...
On arrival in the front of Hollis the new truck was given the place of honor and the all-in-one-piece ladder was run up with eclat but unfortunately it was long by about 20 feet and wrapped itself around the roof. A shorter, old fashioned ladder did the...
"We used to have a habit of looking down on illegitimate children," cried Nazi Ley. "It was an old-fashioned prejudice that has today become an absurdity. We must grant the unmarried mother, who bears a child as a result of natural healthy instincts, the same respect and the same...
Mr. Donkin, a senior housemaster at Marbledown School, was far from wearied by his long years of welldoing, asked nothing more of fate than another decade or so in harness. An excellent pedagog, he had his little weaknesses, such as the daily crossword puzzle in the Times, and his old...