Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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The correspondence is a curious example of purely epistolary courtship. "I'm so pale when I'm off stage and rouge becomes me, and I know I shall have to take to it if I consent to let you see me," wrote Miss Terry at the outset. Later...
Whether or not Farmer W. Parker Perry of Somerset, N. J. ever read of Icarus * is not a matter of record. But it is recorded that seven years ago Farmer Perry, then 26, fashioned himself a pair of wings of wood & cotton, climbed to the top of his barn, jumped...
The four guzzlers in "Speaking of Prohibition" were exactly in this mood of gentle satire. Actually, Prohibition is a subject on which Artist Gibson feels most strongly (witness Life's altruistic crusade last spring). But these four quaffers were not drunk, just pleasantly "fried." Their faces could be found...
Just Imagine (Fox). In 1980, food will be pills; wives will be given out by the State; airplanes will have supplanted automobiles; skyscrapers will be 100 stories high; people will have numbers instead of names; television will make tom-peeping completely, universally possible; any mention of the prim old-fashioned...
These 16 stories and sketches, written in romantic turn-of-the-Century style, are based on incidents of Dr. Munthe's early career as an interne in Paris, a doctor in Naples. Italy is Dr. Munthe's love, and even his Parisian subjects are Italians in exile: Hurdygurdler Don Gaetano...