Word: mode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin, at a Nazi meeting. It was not the content of Schumacher's speech that startled me. I had no objection to what he had to say . . . but the way he spoke was simply quite frightening. Unconsciously, he seemed to have acquired Hitler's terminology, his screeching mode of speech, his gestures and histrionic intonations . . . He barked like an SS sergeant...
...most part, Rome enjoyed the show, but some viewers thought that possibly one or two of the Americans had let Italy influence them too strongly. Said Modernist Afro Basaldella of a canvas showing a tumbled staircase lined with allegorical figures: "This nostalgia for the classical mode Italiana . . . may be excusable in Americans, but in Italians it would be unforgivable...
...long as our citizens call their tongue "English," they will suffer from a lingual inferiority complex. Good Americans will feel a certain compunction to speak good English. This is not good for Patriotism. Americanism cannot thrive when its very mode of communication is branded with an alien label. Before America Became Great, there may have been some who secretly wished that the colonies might some day return to the Empire, but these men have long since disappeared. Their lingual crutch should go with them...
...capital's annual Washington's Birthday bargain binge, which was started by the Mode men's shop in 1919. Now almost all stores take part. Like Mickey Margoles, other Washingtonians had waited in nightlong vigils to get reconditioned typewriters for 99^, toasters, waffle irons and percolators (used) for 9^ each, a $500 Persian lamb coat for $15, reconditioned washing machines for $9. In nearby Alexandria a 1939 Plymouth went for 89^. A Mrs. E. M. Schott came from Youngstown, Ohio to buy two fur pieces, one a silver-blue mink scarf (price...
...silver dollar across the Potomac). Most stores offered only a small number of real buys, used them as decoys to unload trade-ins, old models, other slow-moving stock. Even so, some merchants said that sales, as usual, were twice those of any other day in the year. The Mode men's shop reported it took in $8,500, triple usual sales. Nevertheless, Proprietor Walter Nordlinger viewed the whole affair darkly: "It's getting too big. It's becoming a monster that some day may destroy...