Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tongues wagged their fastest. It began to be widely believed that General Pershing had found it utterly impossible to cajole or coerce Chile and Peru into agreeing on the terms of a fair Tacna-Arica plebiscite. Naturally Chile was supposed to concede the final break on account of the "appeal" to President Coolidge, and because of the recent Pershing-baiting tactics of Senor Edwards, the Chilean representative on the Commission (TIME...
Stronger than Love. Dario Nicodemi is fulsomely reported by various interested parties as the "best playwright of Italy," a claim which the adherents of Pirandello might dispute with some acidity, particularly on the basis of Signer Nicodemi's two plays this season. Stolen Fruit (TIME, Oct. 19) was the fair first and this is the bad second. It is a play of mother sacrifice for an unnamed son of her husband, whom she came to hate when the intruding offspring grew up to oust her own firstborn from his inheritance...
...addition to the Harper Prize Contest, the Vanity Fair Prize Contest, and others which are offering awards for undergraduate literary ability, the Harvard Union has now announced that a Prize Essay Contest will be run this year, as in previous years, with a first prize of $35 and a second prize...
...Martin '26 has abandoned the spinsterhood taken on last year to become a garter magnate, and incidentally Forsythia's hard-hearted uncle. M. H. Clifford '27 has risen from the scrubwoman of "Peter Called Prince" to become housekeeper, and J. P. Crosby '28 will impersonate Mrs. Smith, fair, fat and forty...
...primers. In a great many cases it is saved from such a fate by the timely, if unpleasant, arrival of divisional requirements. True enough the student is still forced to pore over the carefully worded pages of the Bible, but this time he is able to give it a fair hearing. College, if it teaches anything, teaches a young man to judge of things for himself. If then he finds gold in these pages, where all seemed dross before, he is very apt to appreciate and remember. There are certain qualities in its simple beautiful style and plain old English...