Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fair Harvard...
While magazine after magazine gives up its pages to discussions of the undergraduate and his alleged difficulties, it is only fair that some space should be given to those who are concerned no with the grades of four courses a year but with the results of all of them. While Mr. "Pussyfoot" Johnson hazards his opinion on college drinking, while the students busy themselves with more pressing problems, the old questions of how to administer a college are not as yet completely solved...
...Lord Dunsany's dream play, much read in schools and seldom played, appeared last week. A meagre English wage earner disappears over the hills of dreams into an Eastern land. He murders the ruler; rules in his stead; smiles at his consort, a fair but evil-tempered English girl. She plots his death with an envious sheik; he escapes through a secret door; awakes; relieved that life is monotonous, secure. This difficult, often beautiful fantasy was given by the resolute group that is left from the defunct Neighborhood Playhouse.* They gave it well on an obviously limited expense account...
...Love Call. Arizona, a melodrama which flourished in 1900, is now set to music. A bevy of not so weatherbeaten song and dance men; a pretty prima donna; dauntless officers; and a team of Mexican dancers pick their way melodiously through the onetime thunderous plot. Fair music, fairer chorus girls scarcely compensate for a deadly lack of laughter...
...Johnson was governor of Oklahoma in name alone from the day when he appointed Mrs. O. O. Hammonds to the secretaryship, and she began the conversion of the governor to the cult of Rosicrucianism. Lacking the Fergusonian sanctitiy of the holy seal of matrimony, this union of authority became fair game for the state legislature...