Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year, he had Mr. Cook and vaudeville actors-fair show. This year he has only the vaudeville actors and the show is a dire display...
...continued, had not failed-it had never had a fair chance.* He insisted that if Britain were to leave India, Moslem and Hindu differences would immediately disrupt the Empire. "When we see everywhere among the responsible leaders of Indian thought, the evidence of sincere and genuine desire to cooperate with us," the Secretary for India told their lordships, "we shall not be niggardly bargainers if we meet the generous friendship which is near and dear to our hearts. We no longer talk of holding the gorgeous East in fear, but ask India to march side by side with...
...honorable and gallant gentleman" was guilty of redundancy. Pari passu means simultaneously and equally. * "The noble lord" was wrong. With the exception of Bengal and the Central Provinces, the Act has had a fair chance which is proved by its success...
WHAT PRICE GLORY?- The marines in France illustrate the stern principle that everything is fair in love...
Shade vs. Slattery. Young Jimmy Slattery, whose bright speed, whose cruelly efficient hands, led the canny to acclaim him as a new Corbett (TIME, June 8), had been promised almost $17,000 if he would devote a few brisk moments to one David Shade* from California. It was not fair, people said-Shade was only a welterweight, while Slattery had defeated Jack Delaney, one of the best of the light heavies...