Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gymnastic absurdities of jumping jacks said these new critics. From all indications, such fears are without justification. No radical innovations are wanted in Harvard cheering and none are contemplated. The competition begins today and its first results will be seen in the Stadium Saturday. After a fair trial, there will be time enough to judge the new system...
Trials for the play chosen will be held at the end of this week, and a tentative cast is to be announced at an early date It is expected that two or more people will be cast for each main order to give everyone a fair chance to show his ability...
...realistic cinema, a newborn child is referred to merely as "another mouth to feed." The mouth, in this grim reproduction of Swedish farm life, is a certain Goldie (Norma Shearer) who buys a farm for her parents with funds obtained from a dubious source. Miss Shearer is fair in both senses of the word; Lon Chaney is the dubious source...
...Only 23, legend has already begun to barnacle his babyhood. Tales are told of how, 14, he won a job with an ice-company by swinging a 100-pound block of ice to his shoulders?of how, at 4, after seeing some track and field games at a county fair, he erected a pole and crossbar and taught himself to highjump. The first of these is given a good smell of truth by the much-touted fact that Grange keeps himself conditioned through the hot weather delivering ice to the back-doors of Wheaton, Ill.; and who shall say that...
...Topsfield Fair in Boston a fortnight ago, two sleek, kindly horses-a white and a chestnut- followed a young woman up a runway to a diving platform. Below, an announcer was explaining how these Percherons had never been shod with iron to pull men's burdens, but as foals followed their dams over water-drops that grew as they acquired boldness, how lumps of sugar had substituted for whips in their training. On the runway, 60 feet up, the horses whinnied softly, and pushed their noses at electric light bulbs which they mistook for golden pears. A girl touched...