Word: modishly
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...novel stem from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728). The novel was curiously ignored by U.S. reviewers when it appeared in translation in 1938 as A Penny for the Poor, possibly because its turn-of-the-century London setting scarcely conformed to the modish social-protest patterns of the '30s. Social protest the book certainly is, but of an unsparing misanthropy that crosses all class lines. In a dimly lit nether world of total amorality, human sharks snap at and devour each other as instinctively as do their marine cousins on the ocean floor...
...Indians, if it kills her-and them. Soon, of course, she is an expert on saris and embarrasses everyone by insisting on wearing one at an East-West social function. Most comical of all, the Indians' rich, aristocratic, complexion-conscious Brahmans and Parsees of Bombay resent her modish suntan...
...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...