Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jovial and reckless, won over the sailors of the Baltic fleet to Bolshevism and thus sealed the doom of Alexander Kerensky. Returning to Moscow a hero, he enraged such serious-minded Communists as Lenin and Trotsky by light-heartedly dragging off to his bed and board a lady undeniably fair but old enough to be his mother. The great Lenin, scandalized at his philandering in an hour of crisis, very nearly had the hero shot, and Leon Trotsky was especially loud in demanding his execution. Next day a mob of sailors from the Baltic Fleet sought out M. Trotsky, commanded...
...balance should be maintained between debt reductions and tax reductions which is fair to all interests in our country. We know now we shall have a considerable surplus in the fiscal year 1927 ending next June. The President has suggested a credit on taxes yet to be paid during this fiscal year, and I see no reason why the greater part of the expected surplus for 1927 might not be left in the pockets of the people of the country by a credit upon their income taxes. There is not time to pass legislation to cover...
...Attended by the young ladies of Thackeray's Vanity Fair...
Bardelys the Magnificent (John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman). In Which It Is Told How The Marquis de Bardelys, Favorite To His Majesty King Louis XIII, Wooed The Fair Lady Roxalanne de Lavedan On A Wager, And Won Her By True Love; And Also An Account Of How The Aforementioned Marquis de Bardelys Involved Himself In Sundry Cruel Mishaps The While Intent Upon His Naughty Errand, And Near Came By Losing His Young Head...
...daredevils, John Barrymore how to be a lover amongst women. His is an ironical failure. Though personally executing all the heroic acrobatics, he does not film real. One misses the "alive" manner that makes Actor Fairbanks' extravaganzas seem plausible, joyous adventure. Though perhaps foremost dream lover of the fair half of the U. S., he does not achieve the insolent elegance of a Don Juan like John Barrymore's. Hence, Bardelys is not magnificent...