Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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All papers in the Reich featured the Fuhrer's decision that, as a special Christmas dispensation, each German man may buy one necktie, each woman one pair of stockings, without the usual deduction from his or her annual clothing ration of "100 points"-ordinarily a necktie exhausts three points...
Plenty of old-fashioned British Christmas cards were posted, but World War II set many of the King's subjects to addressing cards which were chiefly or entirely about winning the war, with "Merry Christmas" omitted altogether. Typical was a card on which a beefy British bulldog bestrides the...
Mr. Doell went to the back of the house, entered the master bedroom. On a three-quarter-size bed, on top of the covers, lay the man he had come to see: Dr. Walter Engelberg, 42, secretary of the Consulate. Dr. Engelberg was dressed in an old-fashioned white nightgown...
The play does all it can to cooperate. A piece of monstrous twaddle, so old-fashioned as to be almost refreshing, it concerns three generations of a hot-blooded Boer family who live somewhere on the veldt. The husbands systematically bully the wives, and the wives systematically bump off the...
We may seem to be old-fashioned