Word: modishness
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...learned for the first time of her husband's disability by reading about it in a newspaper. Alarmed, she cabled the White House, was assured that there was no need for her to cut her trip short and come home. So Jackie stayed on vacation. Clad in a modish dark blue bathing suit and a bright blue cap, she swam and water-skied in the Aegean Sea, while units of the Royal Hellenic Navy kept unwelcome small craft at bay. As her vacation idyl ended, Jackie tooled through the countryside in a Mercedes with young Crown Prince Constantine...
...imagistic" approach to foreign affairs has inherent dangers. First, there is no necessary connection between a nation's policy and the stereotypes (a less modish synonym) that its citizens believe: assuming there is such a connection may lead one to either foolishly convert one's own policy into ineffective propaganda, or to try to assuage by dangerous connections a nation whose enemies attitude is actually maintained mere by the hostile propaganda of its own government than by the present injustice of ours. The assumption that Images are the spurs of policy may also create such misconceptions as the one (expressed...
Fashion today has almost come to the point where it easily accepts Art Nouveau furnishings. In fact, Nouveau pieces often seem so modern that one finds it hard to believe that they were modish sixty years ago. The swatches of material designed by Richard Riemerschmid would fit wonderfully in a modern interior. The chair and three-legged table by Hector Guimard, the leader of the Parisian branch of the international Art Nouveau movement, combine tasteful flourishes with beautifully smooth wood surfaces and simple, elegant forms. In an elaborate Guimard picture frame, though, the typical Nouveau tendency towards overdecoration is manifest...
...America-the America first known to Wodehouse-were it not for the fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play upon courses which seem to be suspended in mid-Atlantic, uncertain whether to nationalize in yesterday's Surrey or today's Eastern Seaboard. His people voice such dated Americanisms...
...Preservator" is a modish term in Ku Klux Klan meetings in some parts of the South, generally relating to something Christlike...