Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Post: "Why do you say it is a fair...
...Further outlook for the British Isles: Fair over Ireland and England." Instead of a matter-of-fact report on the weather, the statement might well have been the prognostication of a political commentator for that afternoon at No. 10 Downing Street British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera had put their signatures to a far-reaching accord and buried the bloody shillelagh which for seven centuries the two nations have been hurling back & forth across the rough Irish...
...Yorker, Manhattan smart-chart, ran an interview with Grover Aloysius Whalen, fine-figured president of New York's forthcoming World's Fair (seep. 35). Excerpts: "My personal investigation in Europe has conclusively proved to me that there'll be no war. Why, the uncle of the King of Egypt told me today that there positively will be no war. ... A wave of enthusiasm for the World's Fair is sweeping Europe. That's what Europe is thinking of now-not war." Also last week the enterprising Mr. Whalen was pleased to pose with a group...
...motorcade of 300 bright floats, accompanied by even brighter fire engines, motorized troops and limousines, wound through mildly fascinated Manhattan crowds last week to a "World's Fair Rehearsal" in Flushing Meadow Park. As the rolling snowball of Fair publicity thus gained momentum one year from the finish line, Manhattanites began to be aware of another ball-"biggest ever built by man" -which will be white, hollow, 200 ft. in diameter, 18 stories high, and the Theme Centre of the World's Fair. The steel frames of this Perisphere and the Trylon (a three-sided obelisk...
...opinion of blunt Manhattan Park Commissioner Robert Moses, "Barnum had his sacred white elephant and every fair is entitled to at least one theme tower." More irreverent remarks than this have been made about the esthetic and symbolic value of the Fair's great ball and spike. At the other extreme, the Fair's publicity department, whose lyricism is more than adequate to its task, has described the Perisphere as symbolic of the all-inclusive World of Tomorrow and the Trylon as a Pointer to Infinity. To the architects who designed the centre, however, the Perisphere and Trylon...