Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of the Russian Ballet (TIME, Music, April i) dark-skinned Toumanova does not own "Mickey" the marmoset, rather the fair Irina Baronova. . . . "Mickey" recently had a near escape from drowning when his exploratory yearnings led him to a toilet fixture into which he plunged, was rescued in the nick of time. "Mickey" was presented to Baronova by Arnold Haskell, author of Ballctomania...
...musicians to whom you refer as "oboe players," actually only one ot them is playing the oboe. The other is playing the English horn, readily distinguished from the oboe by the metal pipe extension of the reed mouthpiece and the wider spacing of keys. Incidentally this musician gives a fair illustration of the modern method of tone production on this type of instrument whereby pressures are more concentrated about the mouth rather than throughout the head. Still the old notion persists that the oboe player eventually goes crazy, for only recently I had to calm such anxieties in the parent...
...Schechter decision barely placed NRA in the money. The Brothers Schechter operate the two largest jobbing plants in the unsavory $60,000,000-a-year Brooklyn poultry industry. Last year they were indicted on 19 counts for violating the Live Poultry Code. Seventeen counts found the Schechters outside the fair trade provisions of the code because they: 1) sold diseased and uninspected chickens; 2) permitted butchers to select the chickens they wanted killed; 3) filed false reports on their sales volume and price scale. Two other counts accused the Schechters of working their employes longer than code hours, paying them...
...policies of every major power could be discussed with a fair degree of assurance that they would remain fixed. Nazi Germany appeared to have done what Woodrow Wilson and his League of Nations only dreamed of: to have brought about a united Europe, agreeing in a common cause, Bourgeois France and Communist Russia had ended a long and scandalous by actually going to bed together, and an alliance for defense was about to be signed. Mussolini, who, since the accession of Hitler, has ceased to be Europe's "tough guy," was willing to be friends with practically...
...Russian writers to the same extent, influences continued to be sure, but they were of a superficial and passing nature. Russia no longer had to go to school to Western Europe." By 1841 Turgenev, Dostorevsky, and Tolstoi were beginning their careers, so that Russia was really in a fair way to writing off, at compound interest, her debt to England and the rest of her European creditors...