Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half embrace. Meanwhile the second German plane coasted in. and out bustled pompous Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath with a staff of high-collared experts. After ear-splitting national anthems. Mussolini linked his arm with Hitler's and led him toward a waiting motorboat, speaking German with fair fluency to a guest who speaks nothing else. As a disciple should. Chancellor Hitler drew back to let the world's No. i Fascist enter the launch first, but II Capo del Governo again threw his arm around Guest Hitler's shoulders, urged him forward in Italian: "Prego...
...William Goodwin in Manhattan Beach, Calif. William Goodwin, a onetime cowboy who now runs a hay, grain & feed business in Tempe, Ariz., claimed that he and his wife wrote the song, called it "An Arizona Home" and had it copyrighted when they went to the St. Louis Fair in 1904. Last week in Manhattan Federal Court Cowboy Goodwin & wife brought an infringement suit for $500,000 against 29 music publishers, composers, authors, arrangers, broadcasting and cinema concerns. Unsued, however, were the members of the White House Portico Quartet. "An Arizona Home," William Goodwin says, goes this way: O give...
...jimmed, gypped and some of it is ready to be junked." In the Administration Building of Chicago's Century of Progress a telephone bell tinkled. A clerk picked up the receiver, heard a voice: "This is George Dem. I'm on my way over to see your fair with a party of six." Minute later the Secretary of War and party rolled up in front of the Administration Building in a taxi. An out-of-breath reception committee greeted them, perspired with embarrassment, apologized that there had been no time to summon soldiers for a 19-gun salute...
...sound too pessimistic for after all there is nothing more exciting and satisfying than starting off to play the game of life. A man must regard it, however, with a practical viewpoint. The most important thing, which these young warriors must keep in mind are a sense of fair play, an ability to live up to the rules of the game, and if these rules do not seem sufficient, to aid in making new ones. For if men are to live in organized society, they have got to relinquish their purpose when it interferes with the well-being of their...
...American fairness and justice demand that Hanfstaengl be welcomed to this country as a friend of America. He is fifty percent American by ancestry and his family has done more for the unification and subsequent greatness of the U. S. A. than the Untermeyers and Dicksteins have done, who in their clannish and destroying attitude have lost every sense of reasoning and fair play...