Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly got a laugh when you called the new German Ambassador to Washington a "fair" tennis player (TIME, Nov. 14). If you mean a fellow who does not say "OUT" every time a ball lands within five feet of the baseline, a fellow who remembers the score when he is losing, a fellow who, in other words is "on the level," that is O. K. But maybe you just meant to say " a pretty rotten tennis player." This is something different. I got a laugh because I don't think you knew which one you meant. Which is this...
TIME said that Baron von Prittwitz was a "fair" tennis player, taking his honesty for granted and meaning, obviously, to indicate that he played tennis "fairly well." A "fair" golfer is one who scores between 85 and 95 on an eighteen average holes. A "fair" tennis player is one who can play backhand or forehand with almost equal facility, and beat approximately half the able-bodied male playing members of his country club, in case he belongs...
...more concerned than ever with our foreign affairs. The wealth of our people is going out in a constant stream of record dimensions for restoration and development in all parts of the world. We want our moral, influence to be on the side of liberty, of education, of fair elections and of honest constitutional government...
...Sensational Story." "This, I believe, is a fair representation of what has been taking place in the immediate past, and what we may hope for in the immediate future...
...Hayes: "The writing desk I have just sold you was formerly the property of Lord Byron and was used by him when he wrote Don Juan. This fact I know. . . ." In 1890 one William Warren, a London journalist, offered it to the Chicago World's Fair for $25. After the World's Fair, the desk was purchased by a Swiss clockmaker named Uhry, living in Chicago...