Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...county attorney and public safety commissioner quit under fire. About the time lowans finished their State Fair revels last month (TIME. Sept. 9), the grand jury was concluding its work. It indicted 60 officials, gamblers and divekeepers on charges of conspiracy, bribery, perjury, obstruction of justice. At the top of the heap were State Attorney General Edward Lewis O'Connor; his first assistant; State Treasurer Leo Wegman and a State agent...
...were aimed directly at the President of the U. S. No less full of wails and warnings were a number of disgruntled Democrats who used Constitution Day to view the New Deal with loud alarm. If the contents of these addresses could be accepted as a fair indication of what the U. S. is in for next year, the Constitution will then be discussed with an extraordinary vehemence and a startling lack of originality. Excerpts from last week's outpourings...
...least imitate a seal better than anyone else in the U. S. theatre, there is no profitable employment whatever. Most of the skit work is taken over by a British newcomer named Reginald Gardiner who imitates trains, dirigibles, steamships. Other features of an evening of fair fun: the dancing feet of Eleanor Powell, back from Hollywood where they clipped off her bangs, frizzed her hair, enameled her face and made her look like all the other Hollywood girls; the singing laugh of Ethel Waters in a series of tunes strongly reminiscent of her As Thousands Cheer melodies; the slightly unsteady...
LIKE Fred MacMurray, another successful ex-ex- coollegian in Hollywood, Pinky Tomlin got a fair start at the higher learning, but tunes and rhythms kept running through his head in the classroom, and he ended up by having only a fraternity shingle to show for his academic days. MacMurray and Tomlin now have about $1000,000 apiece--a very disconcerting fact to Ph.D. a who stuck it out--and didn't have any tones to plague them...
Sally believes that the proposed New York World's Fair will be equally as successful as that held in Chicago, and admits that she would like to perform there in a new dance which she is now perfecting. This dance is quite different from anything she has done before, but, she hastened to add, its one similarity lies in its lack of costume...