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...
...soft light of the sanctuary under the intense scrutiny of its little occupant will ever deny that he has penetrated to the heart of Harvard. There, as in a shrine, for many years the essence of the tradition, the spirit of the fame, the glory of the name of "Fair Harvard" has been accumulating about a man who has always stood for what the University holds most dear and who as a result will never fail to be held in reverence by the institution which recognizes in him the embodiment of those qualities which have made its name renowned...
...might suppose from a perusal of the Yale News' editorial on the subject, because they were naturally distrustful of the plan. Certainly preconceived antipathies might have been entertained by Harvard, but in entering into a non-scouting agreement those antipathies were laid aside; the system was given a fair trial--a trial based on the actual merits of the plan, not on prejudices either for or against its success. The result has been that as far as Harvard is concerned, non-scouting has proved unsatisfactory...
...should not wear short dresses." And even if the girls in question discreetly whisper a depilatory solution, the Harvard athlete would probably be no more willing to give up their Esau birthright than to wear silk stockings which leave little to the imagination. It is decidedly unsportsmanlike for the fair sex to deny the male entrance to their domain of flaunting legs and it is hardly politic that they should be so disconcerted by a hairy leg that they create a disturbance with the midyears so imminent...
...frocks handbags were produced at the door. Both sexes furthermore had a chance of experiencing that great American institution of the younger generation-"getting stuck"-from another angle. And at popular eating houses after the ball the reprisal was completed. Men exhausted the possibilities of the menu while their fair escorts confined themselves to the right hand side of the carte...