Word: mode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brummell was the younger son of Lord North's private secretary. While at Eton he awed a somewhat older Etonian, George Brunswick, for life. Since George happened to be Prince of Wales, Brummell had no difficulty in entering high society, and was soon acknowledged "absolute monarch of the mode." Even the Prince of Wales once "began to blubber when told that Brummell did not like the cut of his coat." But at last the Beau and his patron had a falling-out; Brummell's gambling debts went unsettled, and he fled to France, where he died...
...School Tie is a mode for all aspirants to the best seller ranks. It reads easily, it shows a fine, light wit. And to escape the label of giddy, it spoon feeds serious overtones to its readers with the subtlety and originality of an Evangelist preacher...
...working class, largely tradition-directed in the late 19th century, has passed into the inner-directed phase, and the middle class, whose 19th century mode was inner-direction, is now split. The old middle class-farmers, small businessmen, bankers, technically minded engineers-is still largely inner-directed. The new middle class-bureaucrats, salaried business employees-is largely other-directed...
...Look." The news was calculated to alarm housewives, delight dress merchants and throw husbands into mumbling despondency. For no amount of patching, mending or letting out, trimming, tacking or tucking, no gusset, gore, or gather could make last year's dress into this fall's Dior mode. In upstairs closets from Spokane to Athens, Copenhagen to Rome, millions of dresses would suddenly become "that old thing," their value destroyed with a swiftness and efficiency that no moth could hope to match...
...There are those of the South (I am white) who hail the . . . decision . . . I have genuine faith that the Talmadges and the like will be trampled into oblivion with this new mode of thought that the young intellectuals of the South are developing...