Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That all was fair in love and show business seemed to be the consensus of opinion at the Hasty Pudding Club last night, following accusations of plagiarisms from dramatic aspirants down at Columbia, where animosity was reported to be growing hourly...
...week the Chinese celebrated the end of the year of the tiger, the beginning of the year of the hare and the 592nd day of their war with Japan. At Chungking, China's capital in the far west, the New Life Movement marked the day with a traditional fair, suitably modified for a China at war. The most patronized concession: a "beat the Japanese" booth where patriotic Chinese could throw balls at caricatures of such Japanese worthies as Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, his predecessor, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Minister for War Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki and Minister for Foreign Affairs...
During the past fortnight Broadway's box office slumped badly. As usual, managers blamed inclement and unseasonable weather. But they also thought up a new wrinkle: Manhattan is light on transients, out-of-towners saving their breath to cool their World's Fair porridge...
...Sunk for fair, German State Railways today manages to run within three or four hours of schedule, hauls 8,000 carloads of freight daily to the Siegfried Line, does the best it can to move millions of German workers and political delegates around the country free of charge, to an endless succession of congresses and demonstrations...
Although Miss Lawrence began her career in England, she should be numbered among the heroines of this country, for she was sent from New York to the San Francisco world's fair as a goodwill delegate and thus averted a possible civil war between the East and the West...