As late as 1914, a seamstress sewing a stylish dress for Grandmother reproached my absent-minded, happy-go-lucky ancestor, "Nowadays, Natalya Vasilevna, one can't circulate in society without a busk"; Grandmother was shamed and agreed to a straight busk.
If the entire council stood in the High Street and offered Green Shield stamps, or perhaps nowadays lucky scratch cards, to anyone who would become a "homosexual", I predict that they would be no more successful than they are at encouraging people to "come out" and vote at local elections.
Nowadays, we're lucky if the kids wear underpants — which is where I might draw the line with the micro-mini.
After all, the real Ginsberg lived for somewhere in the region of 36m minutes; nowadays, you're lucky if an audience will sit still for 90.
Nowadays, they would be lucky not to be asked to appear stark naked, as one model was in the designer Hussein Chalayan's Spring 2007 show.
Nowadays, she would have been lucky to get 45 minutes in his suite at the Four Seasons.
Of course, if a girl's lucky enough to have her own room nowadays, she's likely to decorate it her own way.
It is well worth checking the highlights to appreciate how lucky we are with the standard of officiating nowadays as some of the French referee's denial of penalties on both sides beggar belief.
You don't see too many venture-backed software companies spending years on research nowadays, and Phoenix says he was lucky to find investors who share his big vision — to use AI to "help humanity thrive".
Nowadays, when you're abroad, you're lucky if $1.83 buys you a cup of coffee.
