Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amateur spirit extremely rare in the proverbial sport of kings. Mr. Billings raced many a trotter, controlled indeed, his own racetrack (at Memphis). But none of Mr. Billings' horses ever raced for money and at his racetrack there was no betting. For (said he) it was un fair for the wealthy sportsman, to whom money was no object, to race his horses against the average breeder who had his living to make in the racing business. Thus, though he spent millions on trotting horses, from them Mr. Billings never realized, nor tried to realize, a penny of profit...
...Somehow when he comes to sell his books in the Spring the return seems to bear little relation to the remarkable outlay required of him in September. The reason of course is clear enough, the cost of handling and storage are so great that in order to make a fair profit the dealers in such literature have to pocket about twenty percent of the list price...
...acquittal. Just after the Long trial started last week in the Louisiana Senate, 15 Senators agreed that the proceedings were technically illegal and unconstitutional because the House had impeached Gov. Long at a special session unduly extended. Six of these Long Senators, despite their oath to serve as fair and impartial judges of his case, had sat on platforms from which Gov. Long was haranguing crowds in his own defense. With the opportunity of a full trial on the evidence thus excluded, the remaining 24 Senators flayed their colleagues' "locked minds" and adjourned. The Governor's enemies promptly...
...John Coughlin, owner of Karl Eitel who did not place, wore an apple-blossom shirt, necktie, hat band. Herbert Bayard Swope, just returned from England, got his red hair wet and Commander Paul V. McNutt of the American Legion had the crease rained out of his trousers. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt did not seem to mind when her Chicatie came in last. She still felt Chicatie was a nice horse. Among governors were Kentucky's Sampson, Tennessee's Horton, Indiana's Leslie, New Hampshire's Tobey, Pennsylvania's Fisher, Wisconsin's Kohler. Vice President...
...should have better sense. Love," cabled Mrs. Henry J. Pierce to her husband in Manhattan. He had pleaded with her over the telephone and cable and through the U. S. State Department not to sail on the Graf Zeppelin from Friedrichshafen. She did sail, early one fair morning last week, with Susi, female gorilla, 17 male passengers and the Zeppelin's crew of 40 (Dr. Hugo Eckener commanding...