Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even on such an occasion as this, when we are congratulating ourselves on the British Industries Fair," said the Prince, "no good can come of patting ourselves on the back. . We can congratulate ourselves on our successes only when we have seen and rectified our faults...
...fair vire Mary...
...That's Right." Next day as Queen Mary and her eldest son strolled through the British Industries Fair, they came to an exhibit of bright red British shoes, intended for export to East Africa...
George Moore, celebrating his 76th birthday in London, last week, announced that he had burned the original version of his novel, Aphrodite in Aulis. Shrewd, however, he had saved enough of it to make a fragment for Vanity Fair (March issue). He said he was rewriting the novel entirely: "I missed the architecture the first time and every thing in every art must have architecture. . . . After Aphrodite in Aulis is finished I shall write no more...
...unwelcome guest, elaborately welcomed, is fair meat for "Elizabeth's" delicate irony. Gay and delightful in manner, there is no gaiety in Expiation-all marriage is discontent, all marriage disagreeable. And according to old Mrs. Bott, the negative moral is that troubles, being the stuff that dreams are made on, will pass...