Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students who have known him. At the close of his twenty-fifth year and again during his recent illness, large gatherings of the alumni gave enthusiastic expression of their devotion. Nor is he merely the leader of a small university. He has been a prominent and fair-minded exponent of Christian liberalism, and he is one of the very best speakers of our day. Whether he addresses college graduates or businessmen his hearers are stirred by the beauty of his words and the nobility of his thought...
What the "red hot stuff" was, the press was most anxious to find out. But Mr. Raskob would not release it until Dr. Work had had fair opportunity to reply...
...melodramatic finale is out of key with a long leisurely narrative, packed as it is with rhapsodies on the Severn ("Sabrina Fair"), characterizations of local gentry, exposition of the difficulties and triumphs of a doctor's career...
...when he was Secretary of the Interior last winter (TIME, Oct. 22). He requoted Dr. Work's famed remark: "People are tired of hearing of these oil leases." He quoted Nominee Hoover's one comment: "I will not discuss that matter." The textile depression in New England was a fair target for the critic of Coolidge Prosperity. Nominee Smith cited the average wage of textile workers, $17.30 per week, and contrasted it with an advertisement published in Boston by the G. O. P. The advertisement advertised that the G. O. P. had put "a chicken in every pot," had "filled...
...many Sem Bennelli's* L'Amore is the most perfect of librettos. It is the story of Blind Archibaldo who gained a kingdom and lost his soul. He has a valiant son, Manfredo. and the fair Fiora for his son's wife. He had chosen her himself, brought her as hostage from the enemy's country, but she came loving the young Prince Avito and kindness could not make her a faithful wife. Blind men see but Fiora did not know. His still eyes saw her first at dawn sending her lover out through the terrace, then at twilight...