Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer to your letter, I wish to be absolutely frank. While the Student Council regrets the bad manners of the Lampoon editorial; and while the undergraduate body as a whole would never have expressed its feelings in this way, it is only fair to say that there has been a recognizable element of bad feeling in our football relations for some time...
...Lady Fair is all that money can make it, and it will continue to be just that during what promises to be a long run on Broadway. Bob Benchley will take it for a ride, and it will deserve all the ride it gets at the hands of that humorist. It takes itself as seriously as possible, and like the well-behaved, stupid child of rich parents that it is it will go a long...
...these, much touted songs, the hit of the show, taking it for granted that the producers will force Fair Lady down the threat of Broadway, will probably be "It," a very clever adaptation of Elinor Glyn's article on sex appeal. Has she got it? Then she doesn't need good clothes, good looks or even a good name. She's there Miss Mildred Parishette, the heroine of the show, just hasn't got IT. In riding breeches, she almost captures IT, but when she appears as Margarite, she looks like a debutante at the end of a hard winter...
Robert Halliday in the lead, as the Red Sindow, and Eddie Buzzell, the comedian are very fair. Halliday almost satisfies as the two-faced hero, who must be simple-minded or bold and bad in quick alternation. Buzzell has nothing to offer but his lines, and when they fail him, as they so often do, he looks for the wings, but he can always come out well for an encore and never give it a virtue, of the first water...
From the three principals Pearl Ragay snatches the show with two remarkable dances, one noteworthy for its grace, the other of interest for the unbelievable litheness of body it demonstrates. There is nothings in the second dance to please the eye, but anatomists must rally to Lad Fair, if only to learn what the human body...