Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite, onetime dentist, lives on a secluded island in northern Minnesota, striving to recover health lost in the service of his country. Last week his regular Republican colleague, sightless Senator Thomas David Schall, stopped at the Minnesota State Fair, urged his constituents to offer prayers for Mr. Shipstead's recovery, "although he is not a Republican...
...States with the idea of giving themselves two votes instead of one. The most desirable quality in the female politician is docility. . . . Contrary to precedent Mrs. Pratt was not chosen by Dewey [Hilles]. . . . She will not be docile . . . will neither revere nor follow him in the way of her fair predecessor. Last year she exhibited a distressing lack of faith in Dewey's political judgment, refusing to follow him in the 'draft Coolidge' movement, preferring to ally herself with the early effort to nominate Mr. Hoover, seeing eye to eye with the astute Ogden Mills...
...Indiana one man said: "If Harrison's mayor [of Chicago] I'm going to the Fair, but I'm going to wear nothin' but tights and carry a knife." MacMonnies molded a statue; George Pullman put up cigar money; the Fair was held. The day it closed Mayor Harrison got three lead shots in his middle and died...
...Vanity Fair and other smartcharts Author Keene's piquant stories have been appearing side by side with more mature work. Mostly the characters are English in names and dialect while the style has more than an air of Russian futility. This compilation contains Author Keene's idea of his best stories to date. Typical is "The Latch-Key," a story wherein a girl returns to her apartment on the eve of her marriage to find a discarded lover's compromising revenge: suicide in her supposedly virginal...
Last fortnight's Foundation news was as stimulating to old-established imaginations as it probably will be hard to "sell" to the kind of imaginations it aimed to benefit: Condé Nast, eastern smartchart publisher (House & Garden, Vogue, Vanity Fair) promised the Foundation $2,500 per year for three years for unique traveling fellow-ships-unique because all the traveling will be done, not among European chalets, chateaux and cathedrals, but in the U. S. among barns, grain-elevators, oil-cracking plants...