Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Fair-limbed nymphs of air are ever dancing
...experiment furnishes a criterion, stands approved in its practical issue. As the matter is one of permanent interest, we shall be pardoned in dwelling for a moment upon the significance of the experiment to judge of its measure of success or failure. It is but fair to state that some doubts are cast upon the working of this system, which, like every other yet proposed, is vitiated by the artificial division of classes by society lines. The experiment, however, is to be judged in the light of former elections and in view of the fundamental principles of human nature...
...Irishman who was engaged to cut ice from a pond, when handed a cross-cut saw to commence operation with, pulled out a penny, and, turning to his comrade, exclaimed, "Now, Pat, fair play; head or tail, who goes below." - Mirror...
From these fair misses...
...fondness for real works of art is among us often misnamed affectation. A fear of ridicule often prevents us from surrounding ourselves with the forms and faces that our taste would choose. But give taste - by taste I mean good taste - fair play, and the result could not fail to be what you would wish. The monotonous athletes, sportsmen, ballet-girls, and shingles which we see to-day would vanish, and in their place would appear pictures which it is a pleasure to possess and at which it is a pleasure to look...