Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There has been heated opposition to the War Department's evident policy of stimulating through such publicity the country's support of war measures. But such critics can best help their stand by a fair hearing of the Department's case; and to others General Fries' brilliant record is a guarantee that he will ably justify their position...
...program follows: Fair Harvard Ave Maria Ascribed to Arcadelt O Filii et Filiae Leisring lustorum Animae Byrd Credo Gretchaninov The Gypsy Zolotarev Lady of the Lagoon Bantock Chanson a Boire Poulene Sir Eglamore English Folk Song March of the Peers, from "lolanthe" Sullivan Now is the Month of Maying Morley Bon Jour, mon Coeur Lassus Nocturne Cui Fete Polonaise from "Le Roi Malgre Lut" Chabrier
...Leopold and Loeb the judge was forced to take preventive measures against personal assault. And the nation is so sure of its decision (based on newspaper evidence) against Rescoe Arbuckle, that his jury acquittal has done nothing to remove the official ban on his films throughout the country. "Vanity Fair's", satire is amply justified. The public never admit's being wrong, and it is little, concerned to give an unpopular man a chance...
Courts and juries are often enough criticized and surely with sufficient cause. But the problem is immensely complicated by public judgment. The accused can only have fair trial, when court decisions are made without reference to mass opinion which is formed solely on the evidence contained in meagre and occasionally garbled press reports...
Even Thackeray, most generally known by the grave morality of Vanity Fair, did not seem to disdain a coarser style in his personal correspondence. There is a letter in the collection addressed to one Carmichael Smyth, giving the news of Thackeray's return to England. The author has illustrated it with a most unusual cartoon depicting a family lying in various stages of unconciousness about a parlor. He explained in the letter, that the scene is his idea of the reaction of Mr. Smyth's family to the unexpected news, and represents mother having hysterics, sister falling off the piano...