Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carries a cut of traitorous Roehm which appears either doctored, or light-struck and deliberately used for that reason. The dead Nazi, while far from pleasant looking, was not deformed by a Cyrano nose as this picture suggests. It would almost seem as though the editors . . . had sought by fair means or foul to obtain a picture which would fit the character of a monster of sensuality. . . . EDWIN HYDE LAMBERT Prescott, Ariz...
Next morning found the Postmaster General breakfasting at the Executive Mansion at Springfield, Ill. He paid a courtesy call on Catholic Bishop Griffin, toured the post office, lunched with and addressed the Mid-Day Club, made a speech at the Fair Grounds, visited Lincoln's home, placed a wreath on Lincoln's tomb, drove to New Salem, inspected all 13 of the reconstructed log cabins of the town of which Lincoln was postmaster. That night in Springfield he dined with practically every important Democrat in Illinois...
...November 1902 Barney Oldfield was a brisk young sport who had made a fair reputation as a bicycle racer and just got a job with Henry Ford. When Ford perfected the automobile named 999, which he thought might become the first in history to go a mile a minute, he set about to select a driver for a five-mile race. Barney Oldfield had never driven a car, only ridden in one twice, but he asked for a chance to drive it. After learning to drive in the morning, he won the race in the afternoon, covered a mile...
...field of 13 were an 1897 Stanley Steamer, a chain-drive International, a 1904 one-cylinder Cadillac, a rope-drive 1902 Holsman, a 1902 Lincoln truck-roadster, a 1907 Staver roadster with hard tires on its buggy wheels, a 1906 Model N Ford, a 1908 Maxwell driven to the Fair by its owner. The cars had been lent by the Fair pageant Wings of a Century. The race was run on Friday the 13th. Driving a 1904 Maxwell carrying No. 13, Barney Oldfield, whose real name (Berna Oldfield) has 13 letters, won by chugging seven times around...
...homeowner or office manager looking for air conditioners has a score or more to choose from. Frigidaire's unit, which has a refrigeration capacity of three-eighths of a ton, sells for $340 including condenser but without installation. This year Frigidaire has an air conditioned house at the Chicago Fair. General Electric 's unit and condenser sell for $450 with installation (in Manhattan). Other well-known small conditioning units: Westinghouse, York Ice Machinery, Carrier Corp., American Radiator...