Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signify that he accepted his reinstatement and endorsement with fit humility, Senator Reed mounted the platform at a fair in Sedalia, Mo., and, with never a mention of his own ambitions, intoned the political creed of a "rank-and-file" Democrat. The crowd, of course, caught Reed fever and again silver-tipped Senator Reed was acclaimed Missouri's candidate, promised a solid delegation...
...Reed permits himself to perform feats of epigrammatic agility. "Give me the radius of a man's intelligence," he has written, "and I will describe the circumference of his tolerance." And, "The nobility of the mighty dead cannot be lessened by the puerility of the living." But the fair-day crowd at Sedalia, Mo., would not enjoy epigrams. What Senator Reed gave them last week was a good old-fashioned balloon ascension with oratorical sandbags dropping on Republican malefactors. Sedalia, Mo., pronounced it Senator Reed's best speech...
Southern California took a live pig to Palo Alto. The pig has been blessed by Cinemactress Marion Davies, and presented to Captain Drury of Southern California as a mascot. Drury played a small part in Miss Davies' latest cinema The Fair Coed. He played a large part in California's clash with Stanford; plunging 41 times for an average of 4 yards per plunge. California scored 13. Badly outplayed, Stanford gave Fleish-hacker the ball for seven successive hacks; stole a touchdown in the dying seconds of the last period; tied the game. The pig pouted...
...Fair of the Horse, in Halethorpe, Md., have come school children, railroad presidents, Henry Ford and many miscellaneous spectators, to the number of 1,000,000, since it was opened three weeks ago. On the fairgrounds they have strolled past exhibitions of trunks, tickets, timetables, tableware from Pullmans, telephones, tiny model locomotives, travel-folders, telegraph instruments, types of primitive wooden rails, all of curious and obscure design. Also, they have noted the present day offshoots of all of these. On sidings, huge stallion locomotives from far-away railroads have backed and champed; preposterously outmoded engines, like Shetland ponies, have pawed...
...overhead. She wishes she could be at the Bowl for the Army game: or at Princeton: Princeton men are so nice--doesn't he think so? Very little defense--she doesn't need any. Many of her plays are likely to be offside and she needs guarding. Nevertheless a fair catch. An excellent back, and not so bad from the front either...