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...besmirched with a mob of insolent Black Shirts, and how the masters of art, accustomed to designing banners, uniforms and all sorts of processional devices, would have sneered at so stupid and colorless an emblem as that worn by the followers of Mussolini. . . . Florence is still one of the fairest cities on earth . . . but she is, as we say, a dead town, without spirit, imagination or courage...
...committee has declared itself in favor of the "national-origins" basis for immigration now in effect. After a careful study of the workings of that plan, the committee decided that it was the most scientific basis yet devised, as well as the soundest and the fairest to all concerned...
Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, in Salt Lake City last week to be married (see p. 61), commented on the Governor's discussion: "The sales tax is inevitable. It's one of the fairest forms of taxation we have available...
...life so active that not even illness could compel her to retire and to become a legend while she still lived. Only at the end did she yield; and not even the end means for her a final severance from Harvard, for she will become one of its fairest legends...
...American Mercury (1924). Said Nathan of Mencken: "I respect him, and am his friend, because he is one of the very few Americans I know who is entirely free of cheapness, toadyism and hypocrisy. . . . He is the best fighter I have ever met. And he is the fairest, the cleanest, and the most relentless." Delighting to shock, Iconoclast Mencken was once shocked himself: by Author James Joyce's Ulysses (TIME, Feb. 17). Some of his other books: Ventures into Verse, Damn-a Book of Calumny, Prejudices (six series), The American Language, Notes on Democracy...