Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authorities understand this fact and now plan to recognize it. This being the case, a thorough job should be done now, and a sound course chartered for future action. The undergraduate agencies, which heretofore have proved a failure in general should be eliminated. Solicitation should be placed on a fair and aboveboard basis through selection based on merit and financial need. And finally, official solicitors should be identified with unmistakable insignia, and the soliciting nuisance kept in hand as much as possible through a reasonable limitation on time for laundry and pressing sales...
...Charles V," and you will rejoice if you like that portrait; you will also find Botticelli's "Venus," Raphael's "Julius II," and Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper," but not Leonardo's "Mona Lisa," which is of course so popular a selection that it is both proper and fair for its place to be taken by a nude like Titian's "Danae," which is often omitted out of deference to "the non-Conformist conscience," as Max Beerbohm calls it "which does make cowards...
Clad in the conventional costume of an English gentleman-striped trousers, black jacket, bowler-Conservative Lord Derby went to a Lone jn hotel to see a preview of 1935 styles for men to be exhibited at the British Industries Fair. Said he, after inspecting the show: "I am already in the fashion. I achieved this position by wearing exactly the same kind of clothes I wore...
Before adopting the career of mass confessor, Taylor was a proficient organist. He was guest organist at the St. Louis Fair of 1904. An automobile accident that crushed his hands in 32 places took him from the manual...
...Hickory County. Mo., she was plain Helen Gould Beck. She has danced in choruses, made hats, waited on tables. In 1933 she marched on the Chicago World's Fair, won fame with her fan dance, her bubble dance in 1934. Currently she is earning $2,500 per week at Manhattan's Paradise Restaurant. Last week she made her debut as an impresario, hired the Guild Theatre for the dancer Kohana...