Word: fairest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That a public library frequented by all classes, should suffer from marauding and mutilation is only to be expected. But that a college library, limited to a supposedly fair-minded group of students, and governed under the fairest rules and with the utmost freedom, should be victimized by utterly selfish abusers of privilege, lascivious commentators and petty thieves is an insult to the spirit of the University...
...Story. Lavinia Roderick, light of step and heart, the fairest flower of Henrico County, was coming down to dinner in Todd Hundred, Va. For three days a party had been in progress to celebrate her engagement to Gawin Todd. But of all the company which, assembled in the hall, waited for her to descend, it was for Richard Bale that she wore a yellow rose in her bodice-for him that she sang, as she came, the dying fall of a sweet air. He, a Bale of Balisand, had been, like other Virginia gentlemen, a soldier. Fire...
...that all who attended the great beauty contest last week at Madison Square Garden were such. Even the master mind of the carnival was a Babbitt, a manufacturer of plastic mud for the complexion. And it goes without saying that Mr. Valentino, who bestowed the golden apple upon the fairest, was under his role of Paris only a Babbitt. What the World failed to note was that the sun did not rise out of the west, nor the moon revolve in great circles about the Statue of Liberty, all because of the Beauty Contest. The fact that the winner...
That of the family bush the fairest petal...
Committees and investigators unstinted with their time and efforts have worked on these problems before, but the final result is the acknowledgment that we have the best and fairest system yet devised. The graduate thinks the undergraduate ought not to come ahead in the allotment; the Senior thinks the Freshman ought to be cut first, and the undergraduate generally, and in this I heartily agree, is that it is his game. The Crew Captain of former days refuses to sit in the wooden stands, yet he gloats over the fact that Crew men are purposely discouraged from playing football...