Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this might seem trivial! Conservatives might wink a wise eye at that "spirit of discipline and fair play inculcated on the sporting fields of Harvard" which has so delightfully been carried overseas to grace the hitherto depraved Fatherland. The average Harvard man might feel fairly titillated by Hanfstaengl's glowing tribute to "American energy, character, and idealism." Indeed, conservative professors, if not profiteering patriots, might revel in the lovable Ernst's bid for "intellectual, scientific, and human interchange between the U.S. and Germany, without which there can be no true insight, no true understanding, no true progress...
...Hanfstaengl, can be both highly flattered and highly insulted without showing her teeth. She loves to be called "energetic" and "idealistic," even though she has twelve million unemployed, and her leaders are caught in all sorts of selfish, materialistic ventures. She has what you call a "spirit of fair play" to an extent which ordinarily, despite certain of your glaring defects that are superficially repugnant to her, would induce her to welcome you at Harvard with the same hall-fellow-well-met lavishness that the officers of the "Karisruhe" received. But, Herr Hanfstaengl, America also likes to fool herself...
...meant to take the spotlight off Henry Ford's enormous new building at Chicago's Century of Progress but such was certainly the effect of a party given by General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. on the eve of last week's Fair opening (see p. 12). To the General Motors Building he invited an army of U. S. leaders for a prophetic symposium on "Industrial Progress in the Next Century." What some of the guests saw ahead...
...income under the lower rates would be much less than the usual "fair" return...
Lovely, Husky-voiced Margaret Sullavan, who despite all the superlatives that have been heaped on her bids fair to outshine la Hepburn, gives a charming impersonation of Lammchen, the devoted young wife of Hans Pinneberg, played by Douglass Montgomery. Mr. Montgomery suffers considerably by comparison, the best that can be said of him is that he is very earnest and sincere. The plot has to do with the vicissitudes in the life of this unassuming couple trying to live a peaceful existence. Lammchen is to have a baby, Hans loses his jobs through no particular fault...