Word: fairest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rubio 13 times as many votes as all other candidates combined. Only 19 people were killed in the entire republic in polling arguments. Legal Advisor to the U. S. Embassy George Rublee, who accompanied Ambasasdor Morrow back to the U. S., said recently, "The recent Mexican election was the fairest ever held...
Beyond doubt, then, this experiment is being entered upon seriously. It is, moreover, going to get the fairest possible trial, for a tradition of victory and a small college especially intent on this sport are helpful auguries to prove the contentions of the give-the-game-back-to-the-boys columnists. This one opening, however--and its success is still far from certain--can mean little in such a campaign. Ten thousand alumni basketball teams assemble annually to battle ten thousand school teams. Hockey and football, more dependent on carefully pre-outlined systems of attack and defence; track and crew...
...riches and position to which this middle-aged (Mr. Graustein is 43) suitor referred, she found that the unbelievable was true, that the incredible was a fact. One day (March 14),* in El Paso Tycoon Graustein and Hostess Patton were married, and from Roseland's hostesses the fairest flower is gone...
There is a fairest and most illuminating time to look at a great man dead. That time for Karl Marx, holy father of Socialism of all tints, from palest parlor pink to Russianest Soviet red, is his poverty-stricken, voluminously literary period in England (1849 to his death...
...token of the 250-year Byrd tradition, as precious as her wedding ring. It is a ring of old white gold set with diamonds. Two hundred years ago it belonged to Evelyn Byrd, "the fairest flower" of Colonial Virginia, who, when she was presented at the Court of St. James's, met the gallant Earl of Peterborough. They fell in love and became engaged to be married. But when Evelyn Byrd returned to Virginia, her father flew into a rage. The Earl was a Catholic. The daughter of a loyal Church of Englander might never marry him. The lovely...