Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Collier's would consider publishing such an article only on the conditions that every important allegation be substantiated by documentary evidence, that the Harvard athletic authorities take full responsibility for any charges made, and that the spirit of the article itself be such as to appeal to men of fair minds, regardless of their athletic or other affiliations. The article as submitted met none of the tests laid down and was immediately and finally rejected...
...therefore, is only natural that it does not need learning or many brains to make a fair runner, although to make a good racer brains are a prime requisite. From early youth one is confronted with running to the drug store etc, but when one has to outfoot someone that can make his less move as fast as you can, brains are needed, and the difference in brains is often the difference in great runners...
...extinct. They have merely been transferred, noise, color and violence intact, to the newspapers. How that transfer came about, and how the latest, loudest, most violent brawl of all is progressing, is a story that begins in a small Chicago printshop at the time of the World's Fair...
...young but already portly bartender of Denver's brand new Windsor Hotel was there to see the printer about a folio of World's Fair views he wanted to peddle on the crowded Midway. A swarthy young hellion happened in to see the same printer. This youth was a professional gambler who had played the Mississippi River boats for all they were worth and only lately slipped out of Kansas City, Kan., after the highly profitable operation of a Little Louisiana Lottery. The two men introduced themselves and went off for lunch together. Great exploits were in the air. Neither...
...in? to see him?and any- one could?was sure of a handout. "Take it," Tammen would chuckle. "It's good money, all right. I made it." And no one is sure yet how H. H. Tammen, facile vender of scenic art views at the World's Fair, did make those particular pieces of money...