Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind if I trespass on your space to correct a few errors in your editorial on the recent alterations for the selection of Rhodes Scholars? It is not quite fair to say that "the trustees are aroused to the deficiencies etc." as if they had not heretofore been conscious thereof. The trouble, The trouble, of course, has been the difficulty of altering the terms of a trust under English law. It is very likely that Rhodes himself wished the Trustees to have complete latitude to make such changes but the Will was so worded as to necessitate...
Margalo Gillmore, daughter of Frank Gillmore (one of the founders and now President of the Actors' Equity Association), began her stage career in 1917 after a course at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was second woman in a Scrap of Paper, The Famous Mrs. Fair, Alias Jimmy Valentine. She jumped into headlines with Richard Bennett in He Who Gets Slapped. In the last two years she has been a member of the Main Acting Company of the Theatre Guild. Unmarried, she has an apartment of her own and likes contract bridge, cats (three at present), golf, swimming...
Rich native merchants and Rajah connoisseurs will pay almost as much for a fair-skinned girl from the vales of Kashmir as for a pure white woman strayed out of Europe. Last week His Highness the Maharaja Sir Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir dealt drastically with the situation by increasing the penalty for abducting Kashmiri women from three to seven years imprisonment, plus the lash. Anxious to cooperate with His Highness, the Government of British India agreed to make the offense of abducting women or children of either sex from Jammu and Kashmir extraditable. In the wicked Indian cities...
...Tall, fair-skinned, Earl D. Babst is the 59-year-old chairman of A. S. R. A., director of Great American Insurance Co., American Alliance Insurance Co., Massachusetts Fire & Marine Insurance Co., North Carolina Home Insurance Co., American National Fire Insurance Co., Great American Indemnity Co., Mt. Royal Insurance Co. of Montreal, The Chase National Bank. He has been eagerly active in affairs of Ohio's Kenyon College, and of the University of Michigan, which gave...
...automatic signal for loud guffaws, and this entirely aside from the merit of the team in question. Whenever athletic Harvard became embroiled in a public controversy per opponent got the sympathy of the press and therefore the goodwill of the public. Now Harvard gets at least her fair share of public goodwill as far as her athletics are concerned, and since even Harvard alumni read the papers, this very important body is well disposed towards its Alma Mater, willing to kick in when the various appeals are made from Lehman Hall...