Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downtown Manhattan telegraph office clacked Gordon and Norris, with important-looking documents in hand. "Stamp our papers, quick," said Gordon. "We've set a new transcontinental roller-skating record-seven weeks, three days, four hours and two minutes." Carrying packs labeled HOLLYWOOD TO NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR ON ROLLER SKATES, they had crossed the U. S. without accepting a hitch, had worn out 192 wheels, had arrived seven months, 23 days early for the opening of the Fair...
Modern jai alai, as popularized by the Cubans,* is played on a concrete court about half the length of a football field, marked off to let the speeding players readily know where they are and to determine the boundaries of a fair serve (between the fault and pass line)-see diagram. Three walls are of concrete, the fourth is of wire netting to protect the spectators from a ball that travels 100 miles an hour. Object of the game is to scoop the ball (either in the air or on first bounce) as it bounds off the front wall...
...Also played in Mexico, all the South American countries, Southern France, Brussels, Shanghai, Tientsin, in addition to its birthplace, Spain. First introduced to the U. S. at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, it has been tried out within the past decade at Chicago and New Orleans with no great success, has been a No. 1 tourist attraction at Miami since...
Since the days of Bartholomew Fair, and before, professional carnivals have been held up as examples of ungodliness. In 1922 Variety launched a scorching drive against carnival evils. Of 240 carnivals in the U.S., it found only 20 entirely free from such vices as crooked gambling and lewd sideshows. In one year, Variety kept 26 "black" carnivals from getting bookings, to this day will accept no carnival advertising...
Unlike most labor organizations, A.F.A. did not regard willingness to join as a recommendation for membership; repentance before baptism was its motto. It planned to make carnivals respectable or break them. This was clever salesmanship on the part of A.F.A. Bulletins sent to State and county fair officials, mayors, sheriffs, Rotary, Kiwanis, etc., made it quite clear that if a carnival could not display A.F.A. and A.F. of L. insignia it was because "it permits gambling, indecency, immorality . . . or is unfair to organized labor." Consequently, instead of resisting unionization, carnivaleers were anxious to get the good-conduct badge that A.F.A...