Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only the pope remains cloistered. Kings, queens, saints, quacks, and fiction writers swell the waiting list at Ellis Island. Though their critics tell them "fair is foul; they continue empiricists. And in so doing they lose the charm of regal remoteness to take their common place in the Sunday supplements of the prints with the retired wives of senile plutocrats, the defenders of ward politics, and the leading in dies in musical comedies. Nor is this to be wondered at. There is no reason why such trivial handicaps should force this continued residence among American tourists. Arrived here; Queen Marie...
...such situation, the shotgun prescription has been-keep all railroads operating; the I. C.C. guarantees a "fair return" of 5 3/4% on income to all; the I. C. C. must "foster and preserve in full vigor" the steam roads; profiting lines must yield parts of their over-earnings to bolster up their weak sister lines (Transportation Act of 1920). The 300 astute gentlemen at Dallas awaited Mr. Loree's blast at this transportation doctrine. He told them bluntly what was what...
...preacher and devoted spokesman of "conceits" has been called with a certain cynical truth "the founder of a school of bad taste," "Donne" say Dryden, "affects the metaphysics not only in his Satires, but in his common verses where Nature only should reign, and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice specializations of philosophy when he should engage their hearts and entertain them with the softnesses of love...
...collectively devote themselves to economic accomplishment, the savings would more than equal one-half present labor cost. If, as a condition of this co-operative effort, proportionate shares of the resultant added profits were reflected in lower rates to the public, in added profits to the owners, and a fair participation to the employes, the men, by investing this added wage en bloc through their trustees, could within ten years acquire by purchase in the open market a controlling interest in the railroads by which they are employed...
...damosels engaged in that profession; they touch nothing that they do not adorn; but . . . should a mediaeval warrior suddenly appear in a modern barbershop, and see a fat man reclining in a chair, with a barber scraping his face, a bootblack energetically rubbing his shoes, and a fair maid clipping his nails, he would doubtless believe that this was some new, elaborate, and efficient method of torture; perhaps he would be right...