Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Convention Arrangements Committee gathered in a room in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel one day last week to choose the convention keynoter. To begin with, there were polite mentions of 17 possible candidates for the job. but soon the selection narrowed down to three: Minnesota's Fair-Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey, Oklahoma's stem-winding Senator Bob Kerr (keynoter in 1944). Tennessee's Frank Clement, 36, youngest governor...
...most of his fortune to changing all that. He is 49-year-old Chicago Wine Importer Paul Fromm, and he was at Tanglewood to hear the works of two of his protégés, Ben Weber's Serenade for Strings and Alvin Epstein's Sabrina Fair, premiered by members of the Boston Symphony...
...thus plucking Shavian phrases from Shavian text for its lyrics, Fair Lady wondrously preserves the salt-and-pepper flavor of Shaw's intellect while transmitting the gaiety of his wit and adding a sweetness he only grumpily betrayed. From Professor Higgins' opening song the Shavian tone...
...Moon in Yellow River." This summer he hopes to complete another drama with a background of the Irish Revolution. Like many Irish playwrights, Johnston has a superstition which prevents talk about a play not yet published. "Irishmen feel if you talk too much about a play, there's a fair chance it will never see print," he explains...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS: "Yeats's father once confided to my father: 'Willie has found a very profitable little bypath in poetry'; and this was fair enough...