Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that he ought to resign from his position as Secretary of the Treasury unless he was in sympathy with the Bonus Bill and the Tax Bill as we had passed them. That, I insist, is a fair statement. He ought not to administer a law unless he can 'do it fairly. That is what I said, and I repeat...
...Guild Hall functions, the Prince of Wales escorted the fair Catholic, Mafalda. Overlooking the fact that the occasion demanded such attention, the people, conscious only that the reprobate bachelor Prince appeared with a pretty girl of the right age and the same rank, fell violently to gossiping of an imminent betrothal. But the Prince of Wales remained his misogamist self...
Italy, since the Napoleonic Wars, has always held a fair measure of British sympathy and friendship. The present King is widely admired and respected for his democratic simplicity, his high and rigid sense of duty, his integrity of thought, his immense store of common sense for which he is ever finding a means of practical application. Like many constitutional Kings he is in reality a powerful Ruler, exerting a concealed but profound influence in the councils of State...
Those who undertake to promote throughout the world the spirit of sportsmanship--fair play for all and a sporting chance for the underdog--must be prepared to face the difficulties. But they start with the first ingredient of successful organization--a sound ideal. There can be no dispute about that. We next come to leadership, a very important factor in any case, but of vital consequence in a movement designed to become world-wide. And in this connection I would appeal with all the earnestness at my command to youth to see that it is worthily repre- sented...
...ordinary citizen who cannot reach the exclusive standard may take part real, thorough-going democratic sport on an adequate scale. It was the spirit of sportsmanship which brought the nations into the war to frustrate the claim of Germany to ride roughshod over the world. The spirit of sportsmanship--fair play for all--alone can salvage the remnants of civilization and this spirit alone expresses the real feeling of all sane people and especially of the great democracies of the English-speaking races...