Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owing to the incessant fluctuation of the rate of exchange, this year's commercial fair at Leipzig was run under considerable difficulties...
Conditions at the fair reflect the general economic depression of the country. Few sales were reported. The only foreigners that went to Leipzig were speedily frightened away by the appalling prices demanded for hotel accommodation. Many exhibitors closed their stands before the fair officially came...
...boyhood sweetheart, Holies proved properly heroic-spitted Buckingham in the liver-wing-suffered a terrible beating from that gentleman's lackeys- nursed Sylvia through the plague, then raging-escaped from a dead-cart-and generally conducted himself in such proper d'Artagnan fashion that it seemed only fair for Mr. Sabatini to reward him with Sylvia's hand and a nice little governorship somewhere in the Indies...
Samuel G. Blythe, whose Calm Review of a Calm Man (TIME, Aug. 13) appeared opportunely in The Saturday Evening Post as a tribute to President Harding just before he died, is in a fair way to have his sudden fame extended somewhat beyond the usual nine days...
...famous magazine is on a fair way to the happy hunting grounds. Die Fliegende Blaetter, comic weekly published at Munich and founded in 1844, is in serious financial straits. Its operating cost despite the immense depreciation of the mark is now actually more than in 1914. Its circulation has fallen off greatly. Its ends no longer meet...