Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under People, you say that public enemy Al Capone's old armored limousine was junked in Moab, Utah, after a wreck. Last week I paid 5? to see "Al Capone's $20,000, bulletproof, V16 Cadillac limousine" which was in a side-show at the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport. I don't begrudge the nickel, but I would like to know if Al had two such automobiles or if what I saw was just another Fair farce...
Never one to starve unnecessarily, Henri Matisse discovered that an art student could make a fair living as a museum copyist. For ten years, while his own painting swung further and further to the Left, while his interest in oriental art-Persian miniatures in particular -grew by leaps & bounds, he worked for the Government making microscopically exact copies of the great paintings in the Louvre for private collectors and provincial museums. By 1906 Artist Matisse, still youthful, but bearded as he is today, had given up copying, was the leader of an insurgent group of painters who were derisively called...
...stadium last Saturday Virginia was represented by players whose sense of fair play and sportsmanship did the University credit. It is disappointing that in the field of editorial opinion a precisely opposite attitude should prevail. In their desire to have a winning team at any price the undergraduates of Virginia have indicted amateurism for crimes it never could have committed, and their cry, instead of being a call to a better world of sport, is nothing but the last shriek of retreat...
...close of the ceremonies, Mr. Greene spoke in terms of an analogy which the debate had brought to his mind. He likened the debaters to combattants of old whose arguments were their lances, whose victory was the smile of a fair lady, the smile of Athene. Instead of the smile of Athene, the debaters had to be content with the approbation of their large audience. Their decision was the only victory to be considered. In thus concluding the debate, Mr. Greene also formally closed the celebration of the Tercentenary...
...drive to clean up Tokio for the Olympic Games visitors in 1940 is proof positive that however much they may themselves believe it, the Japs do not as yet thoroughly understand Western civilization. Mayor Cermak or any other executive who has planned for any American or European World's Fair or exhibition could tell them different...