Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Difficulties first developed in October when the representative for the association cut the supply of horses from 30 to 20. Team members also protested when he moved the stable to the South Weymouth fair ground. LeFevre said that the final break came when the association indicated that it was forming a similar team at Boston College which would use the Harvard polo horses. "I pulled out," LeFevre said, "and the team felt it couldn't tag along any further." The other members have now also dropped from the team...
...right to non-repatriation). When the first explanations bogged down, Indian newspapers automatically blamed the U.N. "The U.N. command has actually obstructed the neutrals' work," said the National Herald of Lucknow, which is run by one of Nehru's favorite editors. "The U.N. side has not played fair," cried the Hindustan Standard. "It has allowed prisoners to be influenced and indoctrinated...
...Sabrina Fair (by Samuel Taylor) is a passable comedy of manners much enhanced by a polished production. Treating of the Long Island rich, it is also romantic comedy about a young lady with three suitors. The young lady (Margaret Sullavan) is a chauffeur's daughter, brought up among two of her swains, and now back home, chic and socially hep, after working five years in Paris. Which man Sabrina wants is clear enough, but there is a family problem about his marrying beneath him, and a personal problem, since he does not want to marry...
Playwright Taylor has a nice ear for lines, a sharp eye for manners. But his heroine never quite takes shape, and his plot seems too much without being enough. But if Sabrina is only fair, H. C. Potter's staging gives it a decided fillip...
Common Dangers. Lewis and Clark left St. Louis in May 1804. Long before their return in September 1806, they were presumed to be dead, and it was a fair presumption. Many of the Indians were friendly, but there were plenty who were not. The travelers were repeatedly attacked by grizzlies. Another common complaint was "Louis Veneri," which could be "contracted from an amorous contact with a Chinnook damsel." Clark dutifully reported that "the Chin-nook womin are lude and carry on sport publickly...