Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...market which has favorably reacted to the presentation of its goods, that those same goods will offer a high degree of consumer value and utility, otherwise they would not have endured. This test, however, must be made. The goods that are offered must be offered at a fair price, and by a fair price I mean one that is not inconsistent with the value which they can give. They must represent also a utility as it seems to be much more difficult to approach a prospect and talk value without being able to demonstrate utility in a high degree...
...popular puzzle to determine definitely upon what foundations Mr. Coolidge's power rests, whether it is rooted in party or tradition or principally in Massachusetts. The coming campaign bids fair to solve a part of this riddle, that portion which asks whether Massachusetts support is essential to the present administration...
...accomplished statesmen met as they strolled about the great Spring Fair at Lyons last week. One was the bland and moon-faced M. Christian G. Rakovsky, Soviet Ambassador to France. The other was the vital, curly-haired Mayor of Lyons, M. Edouard Herriot, President of the Chamber of Deputies, former Premier, and still leader of the most potent political bloc in France, Le Cartel des Gauches (coalition of Left Parties...
Suddenly the Mayor's eyes bulged. Choking on the smoke, he sneezed. He sneezed because he had just remembered that President Doumergue of France had come down to Lyons to open the fair (TIME, March 15), and would of course be the chief guest at the banquet. Aghast, M. Herriot remembered that diplomatic usage would demand the placing of Ambassador Rakovsky next to President Doumergue. What to do? Helas! Quel faux...
...hints he becomes a lurking presence whose actuality Mr. Houdini could scarce disparage. He and his dirty crew begin ostensibly as figments in the imagination of a marriageable young Connecticut authoress of our time. Then they make it clear that as she has conceived, so shall she bear. No fair telling the end, shocking though it is; Miss Macfadyen has devised with restraint worthy of emulation. She handles substance as deftly as shadow and abides by Rule 1 for horror-writers?"The brighter the sun, the blacker the shade...