Word: modes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dallas, Tex., thieves broke into a wholesale undertaking establishment, made off with 100 shrouds which-they sold to a gentleman who in turn sold them, to girls as the latest mode in party dress...
...Said he: "Somebody, it seems, gave it out that I lov'd Ladies; and then everybody presented me their Ladies (or the Ladies presented themselves) to be embraced, that is to have their Necks kissed. For as to kissing of Lips or Cheeks it is not the Mode here; the first is reckon'd rude, and the other may rub off the Paint." At 78, his great task accomplished, he sailed for home, kept himself occupied on the voyage by writing two treatises: The Causes & Cures of Smoky Chimneys, Description of a New Stove for Burning of Pitcoal...
...tour of Paris which pays no attention whatsoever to Gothic traceries, the Louvre or the sombre tomb of the Emperor. At one point the sightseers pass the monumental Church of the Madeleine but even their "Hallelujah!" is syncopated. Clad in the fulsome but insinuating draperies of the current princesse mode, the sightly visitors caper about such venerated Parisian landmarks as the Ritz Bar, American Express Co., Café de la Paix, Longchamps racetrack, Claridge Hotel, Château Madrid, Zelli's-all affectionately depicted by Designer Norman Bel Geddes...
...Whenever you write of Jugoslavia there is a certain dose of sarcasm present, and as a matter of fact, it seems that you are trying to picture Jugoslavia as a wooden kingdom, composed of semi-civilized peasants, with a clown king, and the mode of living of medieval times...
...Pronounced Maud-ruh-geh-yehv-sky, shortened to Mode-geh-ski when Mme. Modrze-jewska took out her U. S. naturalization papers...