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Word: fashionedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significant is the report that comes from Oglethorpe University. Recently a professor, tinged with red, of a rival institution, was invited to speak to the International Relations Club. When he arrived, he was met by the spring football squad and firmly convinced that his presence was undesirable. "A most refreshing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD-FASHIONED AMERICANISM | 2/26/1935 | See Source »

President Jacobs' comment is a refreshing example of something else. When more private university heads have the courage to display by their attitudes their opinion of those liberal zealots who insisted on ten amendments to the Constitution, education will no doubt touch a new high peak. How the bones of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD-FASHIONED AMERICANISM | 2/26/1935 | See Source »

The student body, too, is to be congratulated. A student body which is so firmly convinced of its collective stand on any question, that it will forego the privilege of heckling an opposition speaker with embarrassing questions is definitely approaching the problems of life with an admirably open collective mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD-FASHIONED AMERICANISM | 2/26/1935 | See Source »

Brahms lived his last 35 years in Vienna where he was celebrated for his gruff, churlish ways, his eccentric appearance. He went around in a shabby alpaca coat, trousers inches too short. His beard covered his shirt front, so he never wore a collar. On rainy days he took his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Master from Hamburg | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

Not colitis but sinus is now the most fashionable physical complaint. Likewise Surrealism is the latest rash on the high brow of Art. Even experts are puzzled by its cockeyed symptoms, cannot give a straightforward diagnosis; while laymen, confronted by the nightmare inconsequence of such surrealist pictures as Salvador Dali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surrealist Susurri | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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