Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round the town. He is the original bachelor father, as you may or may not know. AND the Reigning Favorita lives here, just a block from the Royal Residence. All the American population of Maracay (we are seven) swear by TIME, but we cannot bear to have our fair city slighted. It's a grand town, we have a sewer and everything...
Wrestler Sonnenberg, 29, onetime Dartmouth footballer, butted and struggled with Wrestler Ed ("Strangler") Lewis; threw him once; drove him off the mat so often that Lewis cried quits. Many a spectator adjudged the match, fair and official though it was, more a football game than a wrestling bout. Wrestler Sonnenberg took up professional wrestling without premeditation. One night last year in Boston, after watching two grunters struggle, Sonnenberg said: "I could take those two bums in the ring now and lick both of 'em without getting up a sweat." Said Promoter Cy Mitchell...
...greeted Mr. Coolidge as "one of the best and most fair-minded Presidents the country has had in many years, who unquestionably will be regarded as more popular on leaving the Presidency than when he entered it." President Coolidge was visibly affected by this sentiment and thanked Mr. Bok before reading his prepared address...
...Many a European, too, saw the 101 Ranch Show, doubtless gained from it the impression that travelers in the western portion of the U. S. trembled before the tomahawk and the six-shooter. Begun informally, casually, when the Millers permitted some of their cowboys to perform at a local fair, the 101 Ranch Show grew into a circus that netted the Millers a million dollars a year. Sideshows it had, and freaks, and many a Bearded Lady and Human Skeleton vacationed during the winter in elegant quarters on the Millers' luxurious ranch at Marland, Okla. But it was essentially...
...came songs with strange, bright har monies and crazy, reckless rhythms. Came Boris with its savage splendor and Tchaikovsky wrote: &"As for Moussorgsky's music, it can go to the devil for all I care - it is a low, vile parody of the real thing." Came Khovantchina, The Fair at Sorotchintzy, The Marriage, miscellaneous cho ruses, compositions for piano, for orchestra. The artist grew but the man lost money, friends, reputation. When at 42, he died, it was alone, in a hospital, of delirium tremens. Then was he first hailed as a giant, then was his monument erected...