Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bevan, a peasant of Kent, England, claims to be "world's ugliest woman." In her heyday she won many a "quid" (pound Sterling) in British ugly matches; traveled thousands of miles with the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey circus, in whose sideshow she sat between Carrie Holt, "fat, fair and frivolous," and the Armless Wonder. Four times a mother, Mrs. Bevan used to affect white lace hats, woolen mittens, high laced shoes...
Last week, while the universities beat torn toms to stir up their alumni, mildly, preciously intellectual Vanity Fair and the brusque, factitious American Mercury, told what lacks and is wrong in U. S. higher education...
...Vanity Fair, David Gray, novelist-protege of Editor Frank Crowninshield, Anglophile, told universities in general and philanthropists in particular that to hasten "America's intellectual Golden Age," what lacks is the Oxonian tinge. He said: "All Souls college at Oxford . . . is an exclusive club of intellectual swells, picked graduates of other colleges who live, at the expense of the foundation, in a kind of divine idleness...
Marlboro cigarets (Philip Morris & Co. Ltd., Inc.) published the advertisement in the April number of Vanity Fair, with the following caption: "Women-when they smoke at all-quickly develop discerning taste." The Pictorial Review was reported planning _to print the same advertisement-its first of tobacco-after carefully lopping off the cigaret-holding...
...Massachusetts history, an experiment of barely ten years standing when Sacco and Vanzetti were brought to trial (and a clearly dangerous experiment): and that for this reason, public concern in its working is not only justified but demanded on the part of all who do respect and value the fair name of our courts...