Word: whims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...died there just four hundred years ago. They prowled up the steep stairs and round the drafty rooms of Dürer's tall house near the Castle Nuremberg. They viewed a great, commemorative collection of his works, and marveled how, at a patron's whim, he could crowd a mighty canvas with all imaginable detail or turn to portray with simple, moving perfection two Praying Hands...
...Howard said. "I always read Shakespeare with a good deal of boredom at first, but the longer I am on the stage, and the more I write myself, the more I appreciate the man's greatness. I hope to play Shakespeare before very long, if only to gratify a whim. The plays that he wrote and those of his contemporaries are unequalled as far as an actor is concerned...
...clings to the taking of snuff and to wearing his hat when seated in the House of Commons, where he has sat since 1880. The snuff is a whim, but the hat stamps him as the last survivor of those indomitable oppositionists, the Irish Nationalists, once led by the late famed Charles Stewart Parnell...
...quickly assumed that his wife, who had battled her way to the top of London society, would now top the tenth largest steel company in the U. S. Would Cleveland furnaces roar to dine London Dukes? Would laboring thousands depend for jobs upon a distant lady's whim? Truth might again be stranger than the cinema, especially in a company with such a cinematic history...
...seize upon the most significant developments. But this defect will probably be corrected as you acquire familiarity with your subject. Then I have a more important suggestion: why do you not call your department PROGRESS, rather than FASHION? The latter is an unpleasant word carrying a hint of inconsequence, whim, frivolousness and lack of permanence. Should not the department confine itself to the valuable, enduring and practical? And if this is true, should it nor be called PROGRESS...