Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of August the brothers expect to have soothed enough minority holders to appear most circumspectly before the I. C. C. and to have fair chances of getting that body's approval to their Nickel Plate System...
...routes between its principal cities. Officers of state invariably fly hither and thither to great public functions. But Mayor Boess-though, of course, he has a motor, a motor boat, and ample public money for his railway fare, when he wished to go, say, to the Leipzig fair- has lately felt almost medieval without a smart monoplane and liveried pilot...
...ever translated into action with disconcerting speed. Last week these sanguinary omens may be presumed to have fired his brain afresh. While most Italians slept he harangued a meeting of all but one of his ministers. By morning a sheaf of Cabinet decrees were issued which bade fair to alter the whole course of daily life in Italy. Decrees. I. Italian employers are empowered at once and until further notice to lengthen the working day of their employees by one hour, while paying them the same daily wage as heretofore. II. Italian newspapers are forbidden to print editions larger than...
...entering her cage for an occasional frolic. When he calls: "Italia! Italia Bella!" the lithe tawny beast bounds up to him, is said to purr with alarming loudness. To date 11 Duce has suffered barely a scratch or two from the claws of Italia Bella. Like her namesake, "Fair Italy," she appears to adore him. The invisible talons of Federzoni may yet prove more deadly to II Duce's supremacy than the claws of Italia Bella. Mussolinism. Today the ceaseless unremittent work-fervor of Mussolini is triumphantly infused into Italians. From monarch...
...McCormick family of Chicago has easily furnished its fellow countrymen with its fair share of daily news. In fact the public is inclined to let the McCormicks off now, let them out of the headlines summa cum laude. The McCormicks are wealthy, accomplished, beneficent, but their special talents and proclivities are by now all cataloged. There is not much news left in them. Yet last week newsgatherers found it necessary to invade the McCormick privacy just once more. Mrs. Cyrus Jr. had done a thing that is almost never done. She had sent her dapper secretary into the Manhattan terminal...