Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gossip in Europe says that the healthy members of King Alfonso's family are his two daughters, and that the eldest one, the Infanta Beatriz, has inherited Alfonso's clever brains also. She has dark eyes and hair like her father. Her sister, Infanta Maria Christina, is fair like her mother, Queen Victoria. . . . It is said that King Alfonso is anxious to marry his favorite child, Infanta Beatriz, now 18, to her first cousin, Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Sicily whose portrait you give in TIME. He is the son of King Alfonso's dead sister...
...Fair and Warmer, The Gold Diggers, The Bat, Why Men Leave Home...
...Exchange appeared on the rostrum for the second time in ten days to declare a member expelled. This time it was G. B. Todd, sole floor representative of the firm of Gordon B. Todd & Co., who had violated two rules: 1) pledging more securities of certain customers than was fair in view of the customer's indebtedness to the firm; 2) failing to answer that part of the questionnaire regularly submitted by the Exchange to its members in which explanation is demanded of how the firm guards against just this infraction. The broker is solvent. But his seat must...
...Czarnowsky, who for 31 years was drum major of the 5th regiment Maryland National Guard, which he joined as drummer-boy in 1868. Chief Two Guns White Calf, an Indian whose avaricious profile appears on all U. S. five-cent pieces, was brought to the fair with some of his tribesmen in a special historic coach. One Gladys Miller, a member of the treasury department of the B. & O., who acquired, in a recent beauty contest, the cognomen, "Miss Maryland," was trundled along upon a float. Governor of Maryland Albert C. Ritchie officiated at the opening of the show. Secretary...
...Superintendent Sweeney's collegiate son manage to run into plenty of milk cans and fall off plenty of platforms getting maudlin over her. Casey finally challenges his rival to a wrestling match which looks discouraging for him of the shellacked locks until he tells Luke and Doris, the fair one's handle, that he was one time intercollegiate wrestling champion or captain of the Yale boxing team,--and how! Doris is not so sure, however, and at the L. and M. picnic she starts a little game of "now, you catch me" and before long young Sweeney is far away...