Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snipper who did not know why he snipped girls' hair off, as body-fetichism. I was long a victim of this peculiar aberration, and only beat it when I identified it, as I did by chance when a copy of Krafft-Ebbing fell into my hands and when, shortly afterward I found that two months before I was born my mother had been accidentally shorn of all her hair by a stupid maid. I cannot remember a time when the cutting of girls' hair did not excite and thrill me. At the San Francisco Exposition...
...would decorously fit. The democratic, glass-walled Council Chamber of the Secretariat was made into a temporary throne-room, memoranda of etiquette were issued to the press, warning them to appear in sombre and respectful clothes. Wives of League officials were cautioned against offending Moslem sensibilities with bare arms, short skirts...
...Short, MacDonald-George V speech was notably unexciting. Salient points...
...Significance. Novelist Williamson always makes his plots go by putting them on the roller-skates of a social theme. The evolution of Jencic from peasant and Hunky (short for "Hungarian" - colloquial for Slav) to U. S. citizen and worker, is obvious and anything but original. But it is done so cheerfully, so sincerely, with such brave and decent effort at realism, that it far transcends what might be banality. It is a warm, vigorous, if somewhat naïve book by a writer who has known and taken seriously all kinds and conditions of his fellow men. The Book...
...England, cinema producers, long on expenses and short on production, blamed U. S. talkies for all unhappiness...