Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after a race which will be held in the basin to morrow afternoon was announced last night. In an informal skirmish upstream yesterday crew X bested crews Y and Z but because of the curves and the generally unfavorable racing conditions which exist upstream the race was not a fair determination of their comparative strengths. The letters X. Y. and Z have been substituted for the letters A, B, and C which distinguish the crewes on squad A until this week...
...annual Harvard Club of Boston concert will be given on Sunday afternooon at 4 o'clock. The program for the two concerts follows: I. Fair Harvard II. Darest Thou Now, O Soul Williams Come, Thou, Oh, Come Bach An Easter Hallelujah Vulpius Ave, Verum Corpus Des Pres III. Glorious Apollo Webbe Two Choruses and Ballet from "Orpheus" Gluck O Isis and Osiris from "The Magic Flute" Mozart Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan IV. The Nightingale Tchaikovsky The Hundred Pipers Arthur Whiting How Beautiful are the Feet from "The Messiah" Handel "The Messiah" Handel...
...Roman Catholic training that means so much to New York's progressive Governor, now bids fair to bar him from the politicians' ultima thule, the President's chair. In the South, Alabama's Catholic-baiting Senator Heflin of the untiring lungs, leads a chorus of Pope-fearing Protestants, others, more tolerant, seeing what power the Catholic Church holds over the minds of their Irish cooks and nursemaids, wonder whether any Roman Catholic can be an unbiased and independent servant of the State. Last week, two sober magazines, the Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic approached...
...Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal Co.-had bought Inventor Josepho's device outright, also retaining him as technical adviser and vice president of their company, Photomaton Inc. Soon street sheiks, titian cashiers, small-scale honeymooners and spreeing butter-and-eggers will start raining quarters into Vanity Fair's newest coffers, to make sure what they look like. In six months, 280,000 people have patronized the first Photomaton studio, on Broadway, including Governor Smith, who played there for an hour, and Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays. Business may get bad for passport artists and proprietors...
There will also be first edition of John Gay's "Beggars' Opera," "Polly," and "Trivia," Beckford's "Vathek," a Thackery's "Vanity Fair," with a suppressed plate, Oscar Wilde's first French edition of, Salome with an inscription giving it to Degas, and "Lord Chesterfield's Letters." These are merely a few of the first editions that will be shown...