Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats are in a fair way to profit without an issue and without a general pitched battle, and they have at least a good case for a counter argument: That it is the Republicans who have failed to arouse an issue, for without a great rallying cry like "No foreign entanglements!" which they used in 1920, the Republicans have small chance of holding their working majority. The leaders of the Democrats are at least astute enough not to lose this advantage...
...closing week any number of bishops and leaders of prohibition- supporting societies declared their faith in prohibition. Mayor Dever rushed down from Chicago to deny testimony given by a Federal attorney that Chicago was full of bootlegging and to wipe out "a blot on the fair name of his city." Even some Yale students were called to testify to the result of a vote taken in the University in which students and faculty voted 4 to 1 for modification of prohibition, and declared that students got just as much liquor now as ever before. Professor Irving Fisher of the University...
That's My Baby. Douglas McLean is a mobile and generally attractive gentleman who occupies his time with comedy. This one is perhaps less laughable than usual. It tells about a mobile and generally attractive stockbroker who fell in love with the fair daughter of his bitterest rival. Much of their wooing took place at a charity bazaar, in which most of the assembly had put on silk trousers and just gone Turkish...
...Liveright ($2). Strapping Jack Montague?as virginally bashful a youth as ever scuttled galleons for Queen Elizabeth?looms while setting sail with the English fleet to obliterate the Spanish Armada. Authoress Paterson unsqueamishly relates that soon after embryo sailor Jack left port he "retched up his vitals"?a fair sample of the book's teeming archaisms...
Though the Crimson stickmen have showed fair ability in hitting safely, the vast majority of the bingles have been merely singles, and opposing pitchers have been able to keep down most of the extra base hitting of the Crimson artillery. Of the 55 hits made by the University nine, only six have been of the extra base variety. These six are evenly divided between doubles, triples, and home runs...