Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, without capitals, were the headlines and picture captions in vanity fair for October. Always arty, Conde Nast's monthly smartchart of fashionable foreignisms seemed like an esthete who had discovered a bigger, fancier orchid for his buttonhole...
...poet who calls himself e e cummins and who has successfully posed for years without capitals, has had several things in vanity fair. Some readers wondered if the whole magazine had now come under his influence...
Others fancied it was a case where a smartchart had been put to it to outsmart its smart advertisements, of which the October vanity fair had 65 pages ahead of the text and 58 pages behind...
...catalogue of any American college gives a fair idea of the final steps in the educational process as it is now applied. The student must first concentrate, or major, in one subject, and take several courses in that; then he must distribute, or minor, in other courses, taken from prescribed combinations of subjects. The first will make him profound; the second will make him broad. In most cases, however, he must have studied a certain amount of Latin or Greek, to make him classical, and modern languages in certain combinations to make him erudite...
...think, fair to say that the colleges have trained very few creative artists in any field of art, with the possible exception of literature. Even in that department it is interesting to recall Barrett Wendell's complaint that, during his twenty-five years as a teacher of English composition, he had produced not a single great writer...