Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bangkok, fair capital of warm lagoons and stately public buildings, rang last week with two sensations as opposite as her dozing Buddhist temples and clanging modern street cars...
...romantic movement is one full of contradictions. Not only was it most thoroughly un-Greek, but at the same time there arose a great interest and almost worship of Greece. It was a fair land of flowers and warm sunshine, of snowy temples and exquisite statues, of liberty and freedom. In this setting lived the Greek, the ideal being to whom the romanticist looked back with yearning as to something very dear which has been lost. Yet it is needless to say that this Greek was as inconsistent with the facts as was the conception of the golden land...
...heard the cutest little grunt from one of the string sections. I am going to try to compose a piece which will give them a chance to display their pretty little grunt. I think that by the end of the next practice, the orchestra will be in a fair way to give a truly successful concert...
...amount of real truth in George Jean Nathan's whimsical article in Vanity Fair, "The American Attitude Toward England", is amazing. Mr. Nathan attempts rather successfully to prove that, sentimentally at least, the citizens of the United States are the natural enemies of England and friends of Germany. He cites boyhood memories, all attesting the benevolence of German cooks, saloon keepers and policemen--the era of the latter type being previous to the Irish invasion. The result is that one recalls the Germans as delightful people and the English as the national opponents...
...then we agree that America is a hard place in which to do good teaching, we must be fair and admit that America intends to support teaching and does so with great enthusiasm. The difficulty is not one of intention, but one of understanding. America has a great belief in education; it has faith in education and wants it, but just what it is that it wants is not very clear. Our typical expression is "Culture or bust". Here it is "understanding or bust", and I think that we ought to look at both sides of this situation. America...