Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chamber of Commerce. The principal object of his American trip is to induce business men to exhibit at the annual fair at Lyons, which was first organized by him in 1914 as a rival to the German fair at Leipzig. The 1924 fair will be held the first two weeks in March in the new exhibition palace, which is a kilometer in length. M. Herriot's visit includes stops in Manhattan, Washington, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Montreal, Buffalo...
...above (illustrated) is being sent out to thousands of church folk by a propagandist agency known as the Church News Association. It purports to be the first fair statement of the difference between Conservative Protestants and Progressive Protestants, or between Fundamentalists and Liberals. It was distributed under the auspices of certain Fundamentalists, including the Moody Bible Institute (Chicago), the Wylie School of Bible Training (Manhattan), and various individual Baptists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Disciples...
...absurdity of any such alignment of differences is that the Fundamentalists are not even fair to themselves. The strength of the Fundamentalist appeal, like the appeal of the Roman Catholic Church, is in assertion and not in argument. The Fundamentalist triumphs by simply stating his simple faith. That is enough. But when the Fundamentalist begins to argue, he denies his faith, for his faith is either self-evident or it is not evident at all. No man was ever argued into being a Fundamentalist...
...recent one of the Moscow Art Players. The cinema, too, has improved with performances like "Scaramouche", and "The Hunch back of Notre Dame", adapted from novels of proved worth. "Chauve-Souris" and "Loyalties" are only unusually good example of the recent tenor of productions and the critic who is fair enough to realize this will, instead of joining the vulgus in deploring the decadence of the American stage, look to the future with high hopes...
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