Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having measured the war boom in this fashion each spoke a word about its soundness. Said the Federal Reserve with reserve: "Unless there is considerable increase in the absorption of goods, the accumulation of inventories now under way might reach significant proportions." The significance of "significant" was left to businessmen's imagination. Said the National City Bank: "Continued building up of inventories, through further forward buying, would prolong the boom but only defer the reckoning...
PERSONAL RECORD-Julian Green-Harper ($3). Once or twice in any year, irrelevant to the fashion and the praise of the season, a book quietly appears which, no less quietly, adds itself to the serious and valuable writing of the world. Personal Record is such a book...
...sketches, which continue the story in this rather laughable fashion, exhibit strong powers of social satire and characterization. Though Ober-laender lacks much that can be found in Daumier, this small sample of his work is convincing enough to make anyone who sees it want to see more. Humor in art presents difficulties which are not easy to surmount. A ludicrous subject, if not sufficiently restrained by means of proper emphasis upon style and technique will perhaps draw a short but hearty laugh from an onlooker. The same subject performed in a subtle fashion will cause a series of chuckles...
...world's affairs, while a fifth occupies both territories by means of an examination of Harvard's transition toward the martial spirit in 1914-1915. As a whole the issue reaches a high standard both in the breadth and significance of its material and in the vigorous fashion in which it is presented...
...through that Benny Pollack, famous old Dixieland band leader, has sued Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby and various other people for swiping some of his arrangements, "Bugle Call Rag" being mentioned specifically. This may or may not be true. But, if this sort of suit is going to be the fashion, most of the country's better band leaders are going to end up behind the bars. It's been the custom for sometime to swipe ideas from everyone on standard tunes such as "Bugle Call Rag"...Artie Shaw has been sued for another $30,000, this time by former Victor...