Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April 4, "The Famous Mrs. Fair", with Blanche Bates and Henry Miller, is due to open in Boston, probably at the Hollis Theatre, after a long New York...
Considering the difficulties of the situations and the impassioned, high-flown soliloquies which their roles demand the various members of the company sculpt themselves with credit. Miss Frances Anderson, in particular, as Edna Earl, is quite as noble and sugary as one could ask in the role of the fair heroine: and Mr. Sullivan, as St. Elmo, has perfect control of the mannerisms of all true villains...
...spent the night incognito among the dwellers of his capital. As "No. 69" he slept at the Wayfarer's Lodge, and with 75 other "down-and-outers" chopped wood from five 'till nine in order to earn his breakfast of oatmeal, bread and coffee. "And they came to a fair garden all set about with trees, wherein was a fountain and in the midst whereof there stood a pavilion--" relates the Book of the Thousand and One Nights. Something rather different must have greeted the Mayor for he has since recommended the expenditure of $42,900 for improving the Lodge...
...proposal to return the railroads to government operation denies a fair trial to the private managers, who have recently received them in a depleted condition from the government. "Public ownership and development of all natural recources" smacks too much of paternalism to appeal to the average American mind. Attempt to retain the present excess profits, estate, and income taxes, augurs an intensification of these awkward and meddlesome methods of taxation. In order to attract the farmer into this scheme, the program prescribes for him a more flexible and accessible credit system. The proposals for legislative control of the meat packing...
When one studies any great reform, he will find that this is usually the track taken by the opposition to discredit and break up the movement. When arguments and fair play fail, the opposition usually resorts to personalities and underhanded methods...