Word: modishness
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...closed motorcars and were driven away to the Capitol. A dozen cars carrying the Congressional Inaugural Committee, Cabinet members, aids, etc., lined up in the White House driveway. The President and the Vice President emerged from the White House and paused to be photographed. Mrs. Coolidge appeared in a modish ensemble suit of moonstone gray, "joseema" cloth (a sort of cross between duvetyn and kasha), with a gray fox collar. Her hat was likewise gray with a trimming of burnt goose feathers...
...inescapable romantic element centers about Harry Fender, collar advertisement masquerading as a U. S. lieutenant. He loves Doris Patston, French flower-seller with an English accent. She is gracious, with a cool, reassuring voice, nimble limbs, modish good looks. The diligent Sigmund Romberg has drained off another resonant score to match his The Student Prince (TiME, Dec. 15). There is a military chorus to boom close harmony and rumble rifles. Florenz Ziegfeld has window-dressed the scenes far above the usual art-calendar level. The book has been only partially translated from the lumbering German. It would lose momentum...
...would be inclined to adopt a graded system of epithets to hurl at those who happen to go to sleep during their lectures, depending upon the general interest of the discourse. The penalty for wearing a hat into the classroom might even be lightened, if the particular hat were modish and worthy of being exhibited. And Yard "cops" will no doubt allow a certain latitude to Rinehart devotees, provided their cries are particularly melodious...
...attack of Mrs. Marbury, New York Democratic leader, on Mrs. Coolidge for making public the cost of her waists may, of course, not be free from malice. It is enough to stir any true Democrat to wrath to realize that the process of making modish shirtwaists for $1.69 is exclusively a Republican secret. One suspects that the criticism is motivated as much by the fact that Mrs. Coolidge withheld the details as to pattern and material as by the advertising of her thrift. Were the Democratic women truly wise, they would immediately closed themselves in conference with Mr. Snippean. What...
...shift has come at last, and our Beau Brummels announce that it is up to each and every one to lay aside the friendly, battered old felt headgear for its lighter and more modish cousin, the "boater." But for many the change presents difficulties. With prices soaring even higher than a "straw" in a heavy gale, and with rueful memory of the fact that Max received the hat of yester-year in return for necessary movie fare last autumn, what is there left for the woeful student...