Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Traffic at Bari has not kept pace with the development. Last week II Duce went down to Bari to open the town's newest publicity scheme, a great Levantine Fair with buildings and side shows put up by foreign governments...
...laws, to allow some price-fixing, some limitation of production. Mr. Richberg, a lifelong advocate of fair and free competition, tends to look askance on such measures. If his views are followed in reorganizing NRA, price-fixing may go by the boards, along with limitation of production, and suspension of the anti-trust laws. That, at least, is the direction of his inclinations and those of his partner, Madam Secretary Perkins...
...hall, sat a trio of solemn judges, holding a little bunch of blue, red and yellow ribbons. They scrutinized a procession which passed through the hall, whispered among themselves. Old friends were the three; each year theirs is the task of pacing through the livestock pens at the county fair, bestowing prizes on Indiana's finest cattle. Among the exhibits which filed hopefully past them last week were no cattle but 240 pairs of humans, assembled in Warsaw's fourth annual Twins' Convention. Judging twins, the cattlemen found, was no easy job. Practiced eyes wandered to hoofs...
From the World's Fair and Niagara Falls sight-seeing Prince Tsunenori Kaya of Japan sped on to the Grand Canyon. There a woman bustled up to the Oriental nobleman to gush: "I'm sure you know the Japanese boy that works for my sister in New York. No? Well, let me see. I think his name is Fu Manchu or something. ... I was certain you would recall the name...
...loving Hungarian steward to a princely house, Franz Liszt was an infant prodigy. When he was 11, deaf old Beethoven is reported to have kissed him for his playing. Liszt's father took him to Paris, where he studied, gave public and private concerts, astounded all comers. He was fair, good-looking, wore long hair. Father Liszt knew what he was talking about when he said: "With you, it is women I am afraid...