Word: modes
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...Dallas, Tex., thieves broke into a wholesale undertaking establishment, made off with 100 shrouds which-they sold to a gentleman who in turn sold them, to girls as the latest mode in party dress...
...tour of Paris which pays no attention whatsoever to Gothic traceries, the Louvre or the sombre tomb of the Emperor. At one point the sightseers pass the monumental Church of the Madeleine but even their "Hallelujah!" is syncopated. Clad in the fulsome but insinuating draperies of the current princesse mode, the sightly visitors caper about such venerated Parisian landmarks as the Ritz Bar, American Express Co., Café de la Paix, Longchamps racetrack, Claridge Hotel, Château Madrid, Zelli's-all affectionately depicted by Designer Norman Bel Geddes...
...Whenever you write of Jugoslavia there is a certain dose of sarcasm present, and as a matter of fact, it seems that you are trying to picture Jugoslavia as a wooden kingdom, composed of semi-civilized peasants, with a clown king, and the mode of living of medieval times...
...Pronounced Maud-ruh-geh-yehv-sky, shortened to Mode-geh-ski when Mme. Modrze-jewska took out her U. S. naturalization papers...
...would afflict modern youths faced with such tests, in Dr. Butler's opinion. But the same condition would probably have afflicted the youth of 1879 if there had not been unbroken centuries of the so-called "humanities" drilled into their ancestors. It is another instance of adaptability to the mode. And education, like fashion, has modes. The Harvard freshman of 1879 would have shuddered at the idea of a School of Business, but he was able to endure the thought of being defeated in athletics by Yale. The Harvard freshman of 1929 takes the School of Business in his stride...