Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International Trade Union Congress, the most powerful labor organization in the world. Sir Phillip Gibbs says: 'France has produced undying hatred in Germany, as well as despair, hunger, and disease, and has raised against herself the moral disapproval of every man and women in the world who stands for fair play rather than brutality, for European civilization rather than French militarism, and for the humble working men and women with their hungry children, whether they be German, French, Russian, English, or any nationality, race, or color whatever. Out of that hatred which she is inflaming every hour of every...
...Durstine, a Princeton graduate and a member of the firm of Barton, Durstine, and Osborne; Mr. W. A. Dwiggins, one of America's foremost book designers; Mr. M. H. Smith '09, New England manager for the Curtis Publishing Company; and Mr. Heyworth Campbell, Art Director of "Vogue", "Vanity Fair", and "House and Garden...
...Vanity Fair", far from confining its distinguished attention to "In and About the Theatre", and "What the Well-Dressed Man Should Wear", has volunteeered some practical information. The "mail order colleges" are thoroughly investigated, and exposed in all their noisy pretentiousness. "The Master Key", "the Realization System". "The Power that Compels Success", all familiar enough to readers of popular magazines, promise wealth, personality, fame, anything in fact, for "Fifteen minutes a day", or a similar sacrifice. And all base their mysterious methods on a "secret power", comparable to the Philosopher's Stone...
...Critics. The book has been generally estimated as its author's best novel. Certainly it is his most pretentious. Dr. Henry Van Dyke calls it a "new Vanity Fair" in the course of an extravagant eulogy...
...citizen, upon which he is called to vote either directly or through representatives, are mainly economic problems. In order to vote and act intelligently, one must possess an understanding of the underlying economic principles. The time is past when these problems were so simple that any one with a fair degree of common sense could vote intelligently. Like all other jobs, the job of the citizen is coming to require a certain amount of technical knowledge. Neither the lawyer nor the engineer can get along now without something more than his untrained common sense. The economic problems which the average...