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Word: fair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...habit once established has a fair chance of invading the graduate's realm, always provided the elements of comfort are supplied. Both in college and out, a vital connection exists between cultural conversation and the baser materials of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOPICS OF TALK | 4/28/1926 | See Source »

...only fair to say that no sides are taken by the director in the presentation of the revolution. At the Fenway, it is true, the balcony clapped the Reds, and the orchestra applauded the Whites, but the film painted both sides equally black at times, equally white at others. The hero, William Boyd, is a Red, the heroine, Elinor Fair, a White. What could be more fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/27/1926 | See Source »

...secret when she posed for Engraver George Morgan and let him affix her profile as Goddess of Liberty to the silver dollars issued by the U.S. Mint at Philadelphia in 1878. In 1880 a newspaper man divulged her secret and she was flooded with offers to exploit her beauty-fair complexion, blue eyes, Grecian nose and crown of soft-spun golden hair-on the stage. She refused, staying on as principal of a house-of-refuge girls' school. She later taught kindergarten philosophy at a normal school, not retiring until 1924. Not only did she take no false vanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Goddess | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

That anyone who appreciates the moving picture genre will understand how moving picturesque is Brown seems obvious. The film version is not half so fair to the Radcliffe author an to the humorist who retouched the story for the screen. But perhaps it is fair enonugh. The Dramatic Club must now have its try. And if it succeeds as III as Metro-Goldwyn, one can only hope that organization return in short order to the garbled gibberish of Russia, Slovakia, and--as has been suggested--points east...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT GOD BROWN | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...Bully! But it hardly seems fair to send you off so soon." Who said to whom? (See THE CABINET...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Apr. 19, 1926 | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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