Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Prince Peter of Montenegro arrived in England with his fair wife Violet Emily Wagner, British-born music hall dancer whom he married five years ago. In London he smiled while she pushed through a crowd of welcoming potentates, to grab, hug and kiss her father, a onetime London detective sergeant. Said the prince, beaming upon his wife: "There is no woman who can equal the English blond, and I have chosen the best...
...rest of the show is only fair. Roy Frazee's organ specialty barely gets by. The animated cartoon is all right if you like that sort of thing; and "The Girl Scout Trail" can be heartily recommended to incipient Girl Scouts...
...sound economic principles upon which every vast, business or industrial unit has been established is to receive profits commensurate with the value of the goods dispensed. Whether or not those goods are material, physical, or intellectual, a fair evaluation ought at all times to be determined if returns are to be considered. In spite of momentary fluctuations, therefore, the price scale retains a comparatively even level...
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was born in 1907 to his father's first wife, Anna Beth Sully, daughter of a soapmaker. He went to various schools in Paris and London, learned to talk good French and heard enough Englishmen talk to fabricate with fair success the English accent he uses in The Careless Age. Partly because his father did not want him to be an actor, he studied sculpture and painting for a while and, like most expensively educated young men, wrote some poetry that was never published. He worked in a few pictures as an extra and showed...
Author Wilson, 34, went to Princeton, to France. He has been managing editor of the smartchart Vanity Fair, writes poetry and essays for the New Republic, liberal weekly. Several of his characters are supposedly derived from real people: Rita-Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay; Daisy-Florence Murray, onetime chorus girl. Others said to be represented: Novelist John Dos Passos; Princeton's genial, erudite Dean Christian Gauss...