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Word: fairish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...observer of smalltown surfaces, thought and wrote about a homely girl whose father brought home a bright young man to make her happy. The producers and players (Albert Gran, Marion Nixon, Eddie Quillan) got the drift of the thing, but not the kindly, Tarkingtonian sparkle. The result is only fairish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...need not discuss the question whether his 'Concerto in F' is good jazz or not; that seems to us relatively unimportant beside the question whether it is good music or not; and we think it is only fairish music-conventional, trite, at its worst a little dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gershwin | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

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