Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true," said Professor Jeanroy, "that every American student in Paris has to be a millionaire. Since the war many Americans have come to Paris to throw money wildly away. All Parisian sellers and landlords therefore look on Americans as fair game with the theory that whatever they don't get out of them some one else will...
...know Mr. Dreiser personally, but I do believe in fair play. ... I do not like your diction in describing his book...
Lloyd George's Speech. With the opening of debate in the House of Commons, Liberal Leader David Lloyd George took several cracks at the policy of the Conservative Government as announced from the throne. Said he anent the "fair and honest" Anglo-Italian debt settlement: "[As Premier]! was perfectly prepared to cancel inter-Allied debts and the debt of Germany to us, provided the United States was prepared to forego what was owing to her. ... If we had just stood pat, that would have gone through. . . . But it is no use talking about that now. The American debt has been...
...when feeling pleased but who invariably referred to the bathroom as "my bathroom" when anything, the Ivory Soap for instance, was missing. There was Mrs. Jollyco, a model wife and mother with a most engaging conversational manner, and so tactful that she did not offend Mrs. Folderol of Vanity Fair one bit when she told her that washing Baby Folderol with any soap but Ivory was bound to irritate his tender skin and was, in short, pure folderol. There was old Dr. Verity, who backed her up on this. The doctor had a son, Phil...
...recess, two boys in a schoolyard begin quarreling over a nice red apple. One of them, by fair means or foul, procures it, whereupon the disgruntled lad shouts: "Ha! it's gotta woim hole. Ha! it's gotta woim hole! You got stung!" This kind of conduct is quite normal in shrill Jimmy Nine and smudgy Butch Ten?but when for the two lads you substitute a pair of famous daily newspapers, and for the red apple a valuable "feature," is such behavior decent? Is it dignified? People asked this question last week about the New York World...