Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eamon de Valera, head of the Republican Party, said that the Irish people will not have to choose between the Free State and a Republic, at the next elections, as there is no chance of fair play for the Republicans. The Republican party might present one candidate in each constituency to enable the people to demonstrate their choice. If elected the Republicans " will refuse to take the oath of allegiance to a foreign King...
...included in that party; then, to complete it, Ben Hecht, D. H. Lawrence and Justice Ford. What a happy time they would all have! Seriously, what could be better in warm weather like this, than a shipload of conveniently opposed viewpoints, outside the three-mile limit, with a fair breeze and a cool coral island as destination. I should like to describe the Tusitala. I think that it is a three-masted, square-rigged schooner. Is that right, my salty lads...
...German offer with stolid indifference, except in so far as the acceptance of a conference is concerned. It is definitely known that Poincare will demand the entire amount of France's debt to the United States from Germany and will rely upon Britain's canceling a fair percentage of her continental debt in order to balance this claim...
...negative influence on his college. He has roused the antagonism of prominent members of his faculty, as their recent formal protest showed; the Commencement Exercises revealed the antipathy of the students; and his unfortunate act of stopping the Scott Nearing talk a year ago roused the disfavor of fair-minded people throughout the country. Yet there are no indications that his term is to be ended...
...reciter of our forefathers ? the reciter magnificent ? the lady of the awe-inspring brow and grave yard contralto who tore The Raven to tatters on the slightest provocation, the cadaverous youth who was so comic delivering Farmer Corn-tassel at the County Fair ? these, with the hansom-cab-driver and the professor of penmanship who drew little birds with flowing scrolls in their beaks, are rapidly passing into oblivion. Alas...