Word: fairish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Fraternity's headquarters, the Forum of Truth and the Center of Peace (a fairish-sized lecture room) in Manhattan's Steinway Hall. Mr. Schafer delivers four talks a week. Truth Students become Master Metaphysicians after studying more than a year and a half...
...salutary. Money has been flowing to the colleges too freely. Much of it has been spent on building, which has added greatly to overhead costs without a proportional return in educational values. Notoriously, the universities have gone in for sumptuous building, and particularly for sumptuous accomodations for students. A fairish college dormitory today offers at least as much in the way of personal comforts and luxuries as can be found at a good club...
...play simply by selecting the best scenes -16 of them-and putting them on the stage with over 100 actors. To people who had not read the book, it seemed episodic, sketchy. But sometimes the play catches a cosy, pleasantly pipe-&-ale sort of English atmosphere. There are two fairish songs. "Going Home" and "Tripping Round the Corner," and a series of musical interludes between the fast-moving scenes. It is probably because the piece is advertised as "Dickensy" that most of the players overact atrociously. George Carney, new to Manhattan, is earthy, rugged, ap- pealing as Jess Oakroyd. Valerie...