Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...angle. Our Mayor is Walter Rochefort, graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School. He has no brother, a police inspector in Chelsea. The indictments you refer to were Chelsea, Mass., cases and not Lawrence, Mass., cases, and outside of the above corrections your article seems to be reasonably fair...
Hindenburg snorted. Mussolini bellowed. They charged, wallowed together in a choking cloud of dust. Baldwin, Coolidge and Poincare chewed their cuds, mooed stolidly as Hindenburg and Mussolini were led back to the stalls from which they had escaped to battle. Tourists, visiting last week the late summer cattle fair at Frauenfeld, Switzerland, noted as "quaint" the immemorial custom by which local farmers name annually their prize cattle after world famous...
...Field & Co., came a third million to add to two he had promised for the construction of a ne plus ultra city aquarium in Grant Park. From Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears Roebuck & Co.), came three millions outright to restore the old Fine Arts building of World's Fair days in Jackson Park and house within it a museum of industrial progress. Mr. Shedd's increased aquarium gift came forth promptly when he learned that two millions would not pay for a plant planned by architects to be the greatest ichthyological edifice-from a scientific standpoint...
...here, it constitutes a distinguished contribution to the abiding literature of this continent. It must have grown, as it grows upon the reader, like a vine of bittersweet or wild grape covering a stone wall. It is similarly eloquent of Nature, similarly unobtrusive, hardy and humbly fair to behold. It is the story of a Kentucky hill child, Ellen Chesser, groping instinctively through a scrawny, vagabond adolescence, with no attention from her roaming, horse-swapping, white-trash parents. The father settles as a tenant-helper on tobacco farms and Ellen's maidenhood is more stable. Her lanky, hungry little...
...Sire de Maletroit's door in Stevenson and is vastly relieved to find it unlocked. Within is a tawny-headed damsel who, after she has concealed the handsome fugitive, quite alters his plan to study Greek at the University of Pavia. No lady of Renaissance Italy so fair and mettlesome as this Valeria but was meshed in intrigue from her dainty toes to her pearl-sewn caul. And no stalwart like lucky Bellarion but would have rejoiced as he to exchange a philosophical career for swordplay in her service. This swordplay, these daggers by night and poisoned wine-goblets...