Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever the King's personal character may be, he is at least entitled by the rules of the game to fair play. Under him, Spain may weather the anxieties of the moment and emerge triumphant, bearing the banner of democracy on high. His downfall, while it would relieve him of onerous duties, would certainly spell a prolonged period of political anarchy for Spain, in which the force of corruption would be let loose. He is the figurehead through which progress can be made ; without him Spain must go the way of the Spanish republics, the way of end less...
...solemnity, that the old joke is still being cracked at the expense of the reader. Industrious young clubmen in training for business have collected a mass of really professional advertisements. The more juvenile members of the club who still have a taste for collecting things have clipped a fair sample of the best and the worst jokes from the various funny papers such as the Tennessee Mugwump, the American Legion Weekly, and the Daily Mail. The fact that a number of these jokes are really funny indicates that the young collectors have not yet caught the solemn spirit...
...Fair Harvard holds away...
...significant an event as the Treaty of Utrecht indicates "a pedantic hankering after specific facts" and that the date of so significant a landmark in the history of English literature as the appearance of Tottel's Miscellany is to be considered deadwood. I feel sure he is in a fair way of becoming the type of college graduate (not limited to Harvard) to which I took objection. I doubt if either a trend of thought or a vision will wholly save...
Belle Case LaFollette, wife of the Senator, having made two campaign speeches for her husband, one at Montain Lake Park, Md., the other at Manhattan, was in a fair way to blossom into a full-fledged campaigning orator. It was decided that she should not accompany the Senator on his tour, and the party managers were reported as offering her employment during his absence...