Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...placing the rubber stamp of official censorship on the Harvard Dramatic Club's play, "Fiesta", the Boston city authorities have adduced evidence to bolster the suspicion of their fair-minded intelligence in matters which they say affect public morality. Their action clicked with that quick efficiency which is prompted by eagerness, or at least by a thorough relish...
...excerpts from a public statement, Leatherbee said in behalf of the Club as a whole, "We feel that it would have been fair and kind to the ladies of the cast, to say the least, if the mayor, before taking such drastic action, had at least communicated with our counsel and given us an opportunity to see what we could do by voluntary action to avoid the catastrophe...
Married. Charles Coudert Nast, son of smart Publisher Condé Nast (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden); to Charlotte Babcock Brown, Manhattan scioness; in Manhattan...
Last summer Clarence led Dick to the Marshall County Fair; Dick won the grand champion steer prize. Then Clarence led Dick to the Iowa State Fair at Des Moines; Dick won third prize. Both prizes brought Clarence $148 cash. Someone offered Clarence $1 a pound for Dick on the hoof. Clarence's father said sell; Clarence said no, he wanted to exhibit Dick at the International Live Stock Show at Chicago. And to Chicago last week he led Dick...
...Sweden, Composer Atterberg is also a musical critic. There, reading the estimates of his symphony, he chose to laugh with Ernest Newman's review headed "Attaboy. " Critic Newman had called the $10,000 "a fair price for a fair symphony which is what Atterberg has delivered f. o. b. as per esteemed order of yesterday's date, and hoping for continuation of valued custom.";,Composer Atterberg took the same tack, let his laughter reverberate through the press: that all along he had meant it only as a joke; that he had deliberately plagiarized and that only one critic...