Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little old gentleman of 75, stumped up the gravel drive of Craigwell House, Bognor, to call on King George, with worn logbook in his arms. His Majesty was delighted. For 15 minutes King George and Bill King pawed over the log, looked at pictures of the Bacchante in fair weather and foul, and gazed thoughtfully at the awesome linea ments of their old commander, Captain Lord Charles Scott. "I made the King laugh!" cackled Old Bill, emerging from his interview in high glee. "I recalled to him how once he near upset the captain's gig, of which...
...tagged with French names, letterpressed in lyric strain. In the face of the Journal's scoop, its competitors professed to be unmoved. They would go on getting their patterns as before, they said, chiefly through style scouts, sketchers and copyists in Paris and other places where the famed fair exhibit. As everyone knows, there is a, giant pattern business apart from, that of the magazines. Paris Pattern Co. has not only signed up the Ladies' Home Journal; it is out after contracts with the great department stores, has agreements with Manhattan's Lord & Taylor, Newark...
...should take the lead. The students should not be left to cut through the fog alone. To ignore or belittle the problem or discourage its discussion cannot in any event suppress its open agitation much longer. The experience of the men who have to use the casebooks demands a fair and candid re-examination of the rational basis of the case system and its re-evaluation with reference to the separate subjects to which it is applied. Very truly yours, K. M. White...
...spite of what seemed to be overwhelming opposition, and a flood of derogatory comments, which is gradually taking on a much more even and less impetuous flow, the Bolshevists have maintained their control in Russia for eleven years, and bid fair to continue as many more. Whether Communism has held its own along with the Bolshevist party is a much more doubtful question, and those capitalists who had most to fear from it and were most active in their attacks against it, are already beginning to hope that by a gradual process of change Russia will slip back to capitalism...
...nature and training best fitted to remain for a longer stay in University Hall. Nothing could be more unfortunate than that some man eager and able to continue in the Dean's Office should be prevented therefrom by the bogie of custom. The fact that the custom bids fair to arise more from inadvertence than design can only increase the regret that its effects may at some time become injurious...