Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became, ipso facto, aligned with the Conservatives. He declared that the Labor Party will be invited to assume office on sufferance in order that "if they are violent they may be 'defeated, and if they are moderate they may become divided. "And this is called 'giving a fair chance to Labor.' It is no fair chance to Labor. It is no fair chance to Britain. It is a fair chance only to faction and manoeuvre." He advocated that the House should be fair to itself and to the electors and send an address to the Crown which...
...Senate should have little to worry over. The referendum per se should receive as fair a trial of its value in a large University as under any other conceivable conditions. Therefore when the Peace Plan referendum at Harvard has proved so little, one may be sure that the Nation-wide referendum on the same subject will not be any more conclusive...
Nevertheless, all of this was Romance. Flashing weapons, colorful accoutrements, brave words and as often as possible ladies of a beauty which battles description. "Only the brave deserve the fair" might be called the keynote of the Romancers. Of course, that's changed now. Only the bread-winners deserve the fair in these degenerate days. But then, the whole structure has changed. Who can imagine D'Artagnan carrying on his habitual warfare with a tank of phosgen strapped upon his back, or Robert Clay sitting in his but and slaying his enemies with electrically controlled bombing planes! Individual fighting...
...general feeling throughout the country was that the Labor Party should be given fair play. The Times of London recently said: "Let us repeat, what we have often said before, that there could be no greater danger than a popular impression throughout the country that the two traditional parties, fresh from a violent General Election, were prepared to unite on no other basis than their common anxiety to balk Labor of an opportunity won by constitutional means...
...discovery that the priceless canvases have been removed from their frames in favor of the copies requires the services of a detective. Nobility is incarcerated in the wood cellar. The subsequent denouement is so uniquely ingenious that no journalistic commentary can disclose it with propriety. Indeed, it is fair to say that the ending is the chief contribution to a consistently competent bit of dramatic entertainment...