Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personal motorcycle. These brittle, popping steeds are perhaps his most dangerous vice. More than once Belgian policemen have arrested a speeding motorcyclist (TIME, Aug. 16) only to let him go, abashed, when they found he was their King. For His Majesty a 200-mile motorcycle sprint is only a fair day's run-and 200 miles approximately suffice to cross Belgium from one side to the other in any direction. Beloved, fearless, King Albert of the Belgians usually motorcycles completely unattended. His newest mount is a recently developed British machine of ultra high power and speed...
...temporarily in the Klieg-light of Hollywood. Mr. Ruth examined the document, laughed. These club owners will have their jokes. They had sent him a contract which offered a mere $52,000 in return for his 192.7 efforts. Controlling his mirth, Mr. Ruth expressed a desire to be absolutely fair in the matter. He would compromise for a small fraction of his actual worth- whatever that might be. In short he would accept a contract calling for $100,000 a year...
...With Mrs. Ford, Henry Ford boarded his private railroad car, Fair Play, at Detroit last week, ordered it despatched to Washington...
...then homeward, in the Fair Play, to Detroit. Said Mr. Ford, talking freely: "I am too busy to make a will. . . . Any business, if it is built on proper lines, is not dependent on any one individual...
...revelations," of intimate biography, when no historical figure is a hero to any fair-minded man who will read the truth as presented by the modern biographer. Realism is the watchword, and while it mercifully covers a multitude of sins for the biographer, it exposes those of his subject even more satisfactorily. Ludwig's "Napoleon" is in the realistic and intimate vein, it is inexorable in its determination "to examine this man's inner life; to explain his resolves and his refraining, his deeds and his sufferings, his fancies and his calculations, as issuing from the moods of his heart...