Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gets the Eskimo craze, begins to eat seal blubber and wears its flannels twelve months in the year. Just now the Riffa have got us, and promise to keep us until they have exhausted the Spanish Shawl market and the Morroco Leather Trust. To meet the popular demand Lady Fair has been ground out, and now, on the eve of its New York production it is being given the third degree at the Shubert...
...title of the operetta has little or nothing to do with the show. Faint heart ne're won fair lady, says the heroine. And the hero shows her just how little faint hearted the son of a French general can be. The show is not going to sell on the merits of its love story, but on the strength of its supply of gaud and tinsel. It is one more example of American efficiency. The French and the Spanish have failed miserably and the Spanish have failed miserably to exhaust the possibilities of Morroco. It remained for the American producers...
...That their trial had been a fair trial, and that even had it not been fair, the U. S. Ambassador to France could hardly ask his Government to do something about it; that under the U. S. judicial system, intercession is unjustifiable...
...American College of Surgeons last week at Montreal: "It is the spirit within him that makes the man supreme in the world and allows him to control materialistic things. . . . Consider the average 150-pound body of a man from its chemical aspect. It contains lime enough to whitewash a fair-sized [sic] chicken-coop, sugar enough to fill a small shaker, iron to make a tenpenny nail, plus water. The total value of these ingredients is 98 cents...
...selection telephone girls are a fair cross section of America's bright young womanhood. American young womanhood by and large is made of pretty good stuff. Beyond that from her first tour at the switchboard the telephone girl finds herself gripped by a great tradition. The good name of a great public service is hers to guard and keep. When has she failed...