Word: craze
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper report ignorantly inferred that Queen Mother Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII, had started a veil craze by allowing the publication of a photograph which shows her wearing a veil with her toque. Her Majesty has long worn a veil, as most good Victorians did, and has not infrequently been photographed in one. The new veils, continued the newspaper, are "of the harem variety, covering only the eyes." In point of fact, veils worn by harem ladies cover the face from the eyes downward...
Install better lighting facilities and comfortable chairs, attend to the acoustic problem if necessary, pack "Mem" to the doors the night before the Yale game, give a "long Harvard", and watch the scowls of those worthies turn into smiles! Why not smash another tradition while the craze is on warm up old "Mem"? Philip W. Rice...
Said one Rudolph E. Vogel of Milwaukee, antagonist: "This crossword craze will positively end by June...
...full-page cartoon by Child is likely to be widely copied, not because it is as good a piece of drawing as the Lampoon has shown in many months, but because it is one of the neatest gibes at the prevailing craze that has yet appeared. Facing this is its nearest rival in this issue, whose own chief excellence is that it offers infinite possibilities, in style of treatment and in the heading. "Nursery Rhymes Retold", for a series of pictures hitting off an indefinite number of people and things within sight of Harvard Square...
...cross-word puzzle craze has gained such popularity at Princeton that Professor R. K. Root of the English department has suggested establishing a course in English vocabulary using cross-word puzzles as the textbook...