Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zephyr broke the official finish-line tape at Chicago's Halsted Street. Without stopping she had traveled 1,015 mi. in 13 hr. 5 min. at an average of 77.6 m. p. h., on $16 worth of crude oil.* If Messrs. Budd had planned on getting to the Fair that day from Denver on one of Burlington's regular flyers, they would have had to entrain on the Aristocrat the afternoon before. Half an hour later, after appearing briefly on the stage of the Fair pageant Wings of a Century, history-making Zephyr shuttled over to the Fair...
...officious secretary, "you're not going to get any place today, going like this. We can give these boys some books which will give them all the statistics." "I'll give the statistics myself," snapped Mr. Ford. "The boys come first. . . . What did you say, Geoffrey?" Fair visitors found all last year's good non-commercial exhibits repeated, some new ones added. Among the new commercials were John R. Thompson Co. (restaurants), with a big pier into the Lagoon on which there was free dancing; Standard Oil, with a big free animal show; Swift & Co., which...
...bulbous Son George and his keen-eyed Editor Arthur Brisbane he swept into Chicago for a preview of the Century of Progress. At luncheon there General Charles Gates Dawes revealed something that not even wise old Reporter Brisbane knew before: Publisher Hearst had underwritten last year's Fair to the tune of $500,000. twice as much as any other individual...
...plays a demanding part; a maid in a wealthy household, the unfortunate heroine of a love affair which doesn't quite come off a chorus girl, the wife of a millionaire and finally a sweet young thing. For her suitors, there is Franchot Tone who outrages her sense of fair play; Gene Raymond whose faithlessness forces her into a cabaret; and then the millionaire Brennan, who proves her mettle. She unfortunately marries the most unlikely of the three...
...opinion of Judge Brewster in Federal Court brings about the freedom of Normano after many months of incarceration. The former Harvard lecturer was fighting deportation orders on the grounds that he would not receive a fair trial in Germany under the Anti-Semitic rule of Hitler...