Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Knowing as they do the fair policy of Tammany Hall, they are throwing their loyal support to our organization, far beyond our most sanguine expectations...
...down. A man named Keenan in Parkersburg, West Va., had written him that a woman named Bauer in Parkersburg was passing around word that a woman named Sanford in Syracuse, N. Y., had written her that she had seen the Warrior "disgustingly intoxicated" at the Syracuse, N. Y., State Fair. It was just the sort of story that is heard at least weekly by most of the Warrior's friends and foes alike...
...rumor (more or less verified here) is that the interests behind Smith stand ready to spend $100,000,000 to elect him by foul means or fair, but it is not believed that that amount of money can buy the self respect and conscience of America. It's a dirty business they're engaged in and I regret to see a magazine I once admired collaborating with men determined to buy the Presidency of my country...
...York World know well, the cartoons by Will B. Johnstone are always absurd, usually funny. His method is to take a news item, carry it pictorially to a ludicrous conclusion. A fortnight ago, he came upon "Chicago offers prize for poster boosting its World's Fair in 1933," as his news item. His cartoon in the form of a poster, showed a dog-faced gunman leaning on a World's Fair building which was labeled "100% American-Thompson Hall."* The smoke of the gunman's gun spelled: CHICAGO WELCOMES YOU! Other gangsters, disguised as fountains, were...
...year ago, Mitchell the Elder died. Nearly 7,000 shares of stock in the Illinois Merchants Trust went to his five children, together with the exotic, octagonal summer house at Lake Geneva, Wis., once the Ceylon exhibit at the Chicago fair, transplanted bodily by Banker Mitchell...