Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mistress ... He refused to wed her . . . After bearing three illegitimate children to three different men, she married rich and died respectable. But-alas for the supporters of the Fitton-Herbert theory-Mary inconveniently turns out, from the evidence of her portraits, to have been not dark but fair, with light brown hair and gray eyes. For hair, Shakespeare's dark lady had "black wires"; for eyes, "pitch balls...
Paul Douglas, onetime professor at the University of Chicago, is a tousled scholar, a philosophizer, an internationalist, a supporter of the New and Fair Deals. He thinks much of the Eisenhower Administration's foreign policy is basically sound, but has serious doubts about its domestic policies...
...post he filled for the past three years in the Soviet embassy at Canberra. But Petrov appeared to wield more authority than his rank called for. Plump and spectacled, he paid little attention to the rules of purdah for Russians abroad-he was affable, a good mixer, spoke fair English, frequented hotel bars, went on fishing trips with Westerners. With his pretty blonde wife, an embassy stenographer, he lived in a comfortable brick house less than a quarter of a mile from the embassy...
...fair sex refused to let their apron strings continue to serve as political shackles. In their loud demand for franchisement they promised to clean up government and close down the saloons...
With these simple facts in mind, any slogan is fair game. As a sort of preliminary warm up, you might try, "After seeing the star-studded cast of Rose Marie in Cinemascope, I want to see Canada's magnificent wonderland of adventure, scene of this glorious spectacle," Although this is a good, solid try of exactly twenty-five words, it lacks any insight into your own personality. A better attempt would be, "A great film in a great natural setting; thrilling, beautiful, cacophonous Canada stirs my imagination beyond limits of the United States; i.e., Niagara Falls." Merely by the insertion...