Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast of moderately interesting performers made of this moderately interesting play a fair evening's entertainment. It did not seem to be quite good enough...
...said Mr. Nathan, closing the taxi door, "which it will be," and added smugly, "We must try to be fair...
...interests of fair play, we, the undersigned, feel called upon to rise in defence of the voiceless middle classes. The middle classes have-never done anything to the playwright. On the contrary they have been very nice about buying tickets and even sitting through entire productions. We wish Miss Nichols and her pals would lay off Apple Sauces, Abies Irish Roses, and White Collarses and give us more dress suit dramas. We favor uplift. Yah! "Y'rs. "GEORGE. "HENRY. "HERM...
...transition which is unprecedented. The great difference between Northern and Southern colleges is that you are heavily endowed up here. Bequests are made to colleges which have money more than to those which have none. However, Duke University in North Carolina is an exception to this rule. It bids fair to be one of the richest colleges in the country...
...colleges, our Glee Club maintained its supremacy in musical performance, the many graduates, myself among them, shared with Mr. Slocum his regret that it so frankly preferred gloom to glee but in recent years its quality has deteriorated so that now several glee clubs hereabouts have vanquished it in fair combat. Certainly, a healthy sporting spirit would have led it to continue in competition at lest till it had regained its lost laurels...