Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It all started with a most correct, not to say super-aristocratic, country week-end at which there was an unaccountable surfeit of gooseberry desserts and one unaccountably incorrect guest. Poor dear old-fashioned Daisy suspected her daughter Terry of an ineffable sin with one of her oldest friends, and...
News lives vividly for a day, fades quickly into staleness, fossilizes eventually into history. But most of it is simply forgotten: it lies abandoned in old newspaper files like heaps of dried lavender. Gradually, with the passage of years, its mustiness changes to a delicate old-fashioned odor. Editor ffrench...
Without such preliminary advantages, Bertrand and Dora Russell tried hard to apply their creed to their own lives. Even when the London Times last year announced the birth of a child to Countess Russell and a journalist named Griffin Barry, her philosophic husband took it almost as a matter of...
If what I read in the German papers is true, there is an old-fashioned set-to going on at Harvard--and in, a grand manner, as it were, over the offer of Dr. Hanfstaengl. I wish I could be there to watch the verbal pyrotechnics, but since I can...
The present fight which has broken out between the Harvard student body and the University authorities of the oldest college in America (1636) makes evident for the first time the cleft between the post-war student youth and the old-fashioned Wilsonian group of professors. An incident such as this...