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Word: fairing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will Dr. Willis be equally fair and withdraw his prophecies and let us pursue pur way in peace ? And last of all, will the insurance companies be as magnanimous in reducing rates as they were generous in raising them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Science's Business | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Romances, True Experiences, Dream World). Boasting of "the largest newsstand sale in the world," more than 2,000,000 a month, True Story sets the fashion in sex yarns. In May 1919, its first issue appeared with some sober items about Elsie Ferguson, Billie Burke, William S. Hart, Douglas Fair banks. But the meat of the magazine was confession fiction. Of these stories, six contained attempted seductions, three contained successful seductions. A successful one was described as follows: "His kisses intoxicated me. Everything seemed to slip away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Diluted Sex | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Conde Nast (Vanity Fair, Vogue. Last week, as he sailed on the S. S. Munargo for Havana, he said that from April on he would edit and print an edition of Vogue in Germany. French and British editions already exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Periodicals | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...rumors whispered by the gentlemen ahead as one crosses the Yard. If all is to be believed, the Road to Rome has its other terminus under the awning that covers the steps of Memorial Hall. "Fair as a star", but more than one will be shining March 2. Greta of the round arms and tight curls will be there. What if it be difficult beforehand to find the leading men, or afterward to learn who were the lucky players in company-with? For it is written: As a prom committee sideshows, so shall it reap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THAT CERTAIN PARTY | 2/21/1928 | See Source »

Conde Nast Publications (Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden)-$1,232,781. Previous year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Earnings | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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