Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is a sublimation of Gypsy passion and Teutonic sentiment. But Herr Lehar is also a businessman who runs a theatre in Vienna and takes seriously his affiliation with Rotary International. The great majority of his best scores were written more than a decade ago and this does not prevent...
The Journal's, anonymous correspondent blindfolded himself 18 months ago, put a pencil to a map. Where his pencil landed he went and hung out his shingle. Wrote Lawyer "Richard Roe" from "somewhere in the Adirondacks": "I have been here almost one and one-half years and have earned...
By mid-day I was installed in a vacant set of undergraduate rooms in one of the seven houses which very roughly correspond to Cambridge colleges. I had a bed-room, sitting room and bathroom. The sitting room had central-heating and a telephone. There was no nonsense about the...
These indices differ because they are figured on different bases. Dun's was started in 1860, is compiled from more than 200 items. The magic base of normality-100%-is not used. Instead, figures expressing a total in which each item is "weighted" according to per capita consumption, allow...
*It is the pride of modern-style, foreign-educated Chinese to be "just like Americans" in using initials. Mr. Soong (Harvard, 1915), if he wrote his name the old-fashioned Chinese way, would be Soong Tse-wen, but he chooses to be T. V. Soong, and never in any circumstances...