Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent activities of the Cambridge Board of Censors and the Postmaster indicate that all forces are being brought to bear to eliminate pruriency from this fair city. They have taken vigorous, concerted action on issues in the past, indicating that their honourable positions are to be taken seriously, that they not only have the power, but the inclination to regulate the morals of less puritanical Cantabridgians. Since they have demonstrated that they intend to leave no stone unturned to keep the collective Cambridge Mind free from hampering vulgarity, whether it will or no, it is only fitting that new menaces...
Painting: Robert Berkeley Green, 25, son of a Pittsburgh chiropractor, for an egg tempera panel called County Fair...
...treaties of mutual assistance. It ignored such complications as the facts that both Germany and Poland have unsettled quarrels with Lithuania and that Poland does not want Czechoslovakia in an Eastern European league. But so potent was the Franco-Russian combination that last week there was a fair chance that most of the invitees will be obliged to accept...
...experimental two-reeler, La Cucaracha (which grossed $350,000), the Whitneys held a story conference to choose a feature subject. The vogue for clean pictures, the necessity for glamorous costumes and the current popularity of Victorian classics made a dramatic version of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair appear to be ideal. For a director the Whitneys chose Lowell Sherman. For a star they chose Miriam Hopkins. Becky Sharp went into production almost a year ago. By last week, it had survived a series of unprecedented mishaps...
...dealings Tenor Johnson was expected to be a fair and sympathetic arbitrator, a practical judge of the artists' rights and of what the public wants for its money. As a singer Tenor Johnson was always popular with his colleagues. Yet unlike many of them he had kept closely in touch with the everyday people who make up audiences. Johnson is a golfer, a Mason, a Rotarian. He has remained as unpretentious as his townsfolk in Guelph, Ontario, who now prize his portrait in Guelph Town Hall but who once wondered at a youth so incalculable that he would turn...