Word: modish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tells of a fellow called George Garvey, so indescribably dull and ordinary that he becomes the pet of an avant-garde group, as a symbol, apparently, of what is wrong with bourgeois U.S. They take to hanging out in his respectable apartment and quoting his unquotable bromides in their modish cold-water flats. Garvey beats the avant-gardists at their own game. He loses a little finger slamming a car door and replaces the member with a mandarin's jeweled nail guard...
...Toby's career is marked by his successive failures as a speculator, opera singer, painter, milliner and playwright. During World War II, when he is laid low by a deadly disease and the family fortunes have been dissipated, Toby learns he cannot even afford to die in modish style. British Novelist Plomer is an extremely skillful and witty writer (the eyes of a spaniel "had a look at once deeply resentful and falsely soulful, like the eyes of somebody pretending to listen to a Beethoven quartet but thinking about an assessment for income...
...outdone, modish, sexy Columnist Sheilah Graham wrote: "Both parties were 'bored right to the ears' with each other . . . Marilyn confided to friends: 'Joe's idea of a good time is to stay home night after night looking at television.' [He] objected heatedly to the fanfare of sexy photos." Many another reporter wrote that Joe was particularly miffed by the publicity photos taken on a New York street a month ago, showing Marilyn's skirt billowing up over her backside. At the time, Joe was reported to have said angrily: "What the hell...
...Miss Helen Trask. 58, modish but motherly mistress in the third and fourth grades at the Munsey Park School in Manhasset, N.Y. A disciple of the learning-by-doing philosophy, Miss Trask keeps her classroom humming with activity. Most mornings begin with a "report period" in which her pupils exchange ideas or tell each other stories. After that, the class's regular work-social studies, science, reading, arithmetic-flows along with something of the ease of a stream of consciousness. Through spontaneous "poems," pupils begin to learn the power of words; through reading and trips around the community, they...
...particularly in the case of bronchitic patients." But London shopkeepers were quick to seize on the mask. At the end of two days, many London chemists had sold all their gauze. Mayfair milliners hastily sketched up a line of fashionable "smoggles" in tulle, velvet and chiffon to please the modish dyspneic. One dress designer announced a "bunny mask" modeled on a rabbit's nose and containing a special filter. In the murk outside the Tottenham Court tube station, one Londoner-Shipping Clerk Dennis Michaels, 24, was actually seen wearing a gauze mask. Some passers-by stared and laughed...