Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatly appreciate your treatment of my lawsuit against Rufus Cutler Dawes in TIME, July 51. headlined "Fair Without Pants" in the Theatre department. It just occurred to me an original valentine I wrote to a woman friend last February might amuse your readers as "The Big Bad Wolf" has since become prominent. If you wish to, you are welcome...
...have no interest in the Congress or Auditorium Hotels other than that of fair play...
...story has speed, tenseness and a fair love interest centered around the gradual accptance by Catharine. Martin's wife, of his ambitions as a politician. The account of her growing faith in the ability and justification of her husband is excellently conveyed to us by the author. It is this phase of the novel which is most interesting. The evolution of the love of Catharine for Martin and the lessening of her regard for her ruthless, sacrosant mother are both given to us convincingly. The portrait of the mother, Florence Willet Carmichael, succeeds remarkably. She is a grasping, hypocritical woman...
...requirements and Ph.D. old fogeyism should be classed the University's policy both scholastic and financial, toward the undergraduates concerning the four course per year requirement. At present the minimum tuition fee is $400, based upon the average four course modicum at $100 a course. Ostensibly the system is fair enough, since 16 courses are normally required for the degree, but in reality it is the cause of much injustice and not a little hardship...
...Footlight Parade" seems to suffer from a comparison with "Forty Second Street," or the golddigger balderdash. The plot is thin, the songs are only fair. Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, and James Cagney are adequate in their parts. But they show a superior attitude to all the implausible nonsense: It is not in good taste, nor is it just to the public if great artists are insincere. What deserve praise are the photography and the ensemble dances on such a large scale that, were he living, Ziegfeld would feel like a cheapskate if he saw them...