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Word: fashion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Near "Mile 133" on the Algoma Central Canadian Railway, last week, virile Baggageman Robert Burns dealt in pioneer fashion with a she-wolf. Seizing the beast between neck and shoulders he strangled her into a coma, carried her home securely tied with baggage car twine to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Privy Seal Jim | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Frederick Lonsdale's comedy of the woman who gets into society so that her criminal associates can steal pearls depends less on plot and more on dialog than most plays of its type. It is satirical, sentimental, witty. It set, in its season, a new fashion in drawing-room drama. It is as effective as a talking picture as it was on the legitimate stage. Although the manuscript has been followed so closely that if you look sharp you can catch in the picture the momentary pauses that marked the play's division into acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...drives a Chrysler car, dresses in a room mounted on wheels, likes rice pudding, consults fortune tellers. Most of her pictures have been vapid dramas of high life, assigned to her because of her social background: Pleasure Mad, Broken Barriers, His Secretary, The Latest from Paris, Slave of Fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Several years ago Squibb (always a fairly close corporation) permitted a number of retailers to buy shares of participating preferred stock. The present plan goes much farther. From the retailer's standpoint it works in some such fashion as this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Squibb Squib | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Seattle National. This merger, with $10,000,000 of capital surplus and undivided profits, will have total resources of over $119,000,000. What is more it will have a $2,000,000 securities company, with a name that could only be more imposing if written in the German fashion: First-seattledexterhortonsecuritiescompany. But Seattle is a city two and one-fourth times as large as Des Moines, and its achievement is of a different calibre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Des Moines Bank Merger | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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