Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...whole mission in life to pour out her blessings on us, and we as grateful children, can do no less than hold up and strengthen her hands, thus emulating the example of her friends outside, who have of late showered her with gifts in so splendid and thoughtful a fashion...
...inevitability of the growth of the Standard Oil Trust, the essay summarizes thus: "Given the railway and economic conditions, the progress of the Standard Oil Company is quite inevitable, since it showed at an early time bright promise of industrial efficiency. It readily acquired, after the fashion of the period, proportionate discrimination in freight rates; by getting control through discriminations of the means of transportation, it inevitably achieved monopoly...
...attempt to treat a question of real interest in light vein, and is in this way a commendable departure from the conventional rambling vehicle for chance flashes of wit. But the treatment is unfortunately inconclusive, and the writer, apparently aware of this, follows the good old Lampoon fashion and introduces an allusion to recent hour exams, instead of pointing his intended moral...
...most important factors in literary fashion is that of imitation. It is one of the traits of human nature, and appears in literature not only in imitation in writing, but also in the reading of the books of the day. In literary evolution there are no laws. Action is followed by re-action, the psychological novel replaces the romantic, and is in turn displaced. There is no invariable progress. Love of novelty makes for literary progress more than any other factor...
...literature. His "Odette" (1881) and "Georgette" (1885) are essays of comedies with a thesis. M. Sardou has written even "operettes," "bouffes," and in "Le Roi Carotte," he tried poetry. He also treated of social studies. Quite recently he took the opportunity offered by the literary napoleonism of new fashion in France, to give us his curious innovation of "Madame Sans Gene...