Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be remembered as the climax of a tournament that lasted for 13 months and in which 27 countries entered teams, came in the fifth set. Perry had led, 5-1. Wood then pulled up to 3-5 on his own serve. At 30-all, he still had a fair chance to even the series. He sent two shots in succession into the bottom of the net, walked forward to shake hands...
Ladies Should Listen (Paramount). "Have you ever gone through the telephone book, page by page?" asks Julian de Lussac (Cary Grant) in this picture. "No, but I am reading Anthony Adverse," replies his friend Paul Vernet (Edward Everett Horton). This is a fair sample of the comedy in Ladies Should Listen, a cinematic fly spec, full of old gags and useless information. It includes such familiar figures of bedroom farce as a funny valet, a South American business man who correctly suspects his wife of misconduct, a short sighted girl (Nydia Westman) who trips over rugs...
...died next day. Overtures for a general strike were made but other unions promised no more than moral support. Meantime a two-day truce was declared, to give Rev. Francis Haas, Federal mediator, time to arrange a settlement. Governor Floyd B. Olson moved 4,000 guardsmen to the State Fair Grounds. When the truce expired no settlement had been reached and police again began convoying food trucks...
...story was shown to him. He claimed to have been utterly misquoted: "In my speech I praised the punctuality, accuracy and knowledge of the rules possessed by Swedish officials, advising our athletes to comply strictly with the rules and program. I emphasized that they would be sure of fair treatment...
Holabird & Root buildings reflect the quick brilliance of Root, the patient logic of Holabird. All Chicago knows their towering railroad-straddling Daily News Building, their Palmolive Building topped by the Lindbergh beacon, their Board of Trade Building which spans La Salle Street, their swift, swirling Chrysler Building on the Fair Grounds...