Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dictated and redictated a paragraph about the future: "Every man when he is elected to office is entitled to a full, fair chance to make good, and Mr. Hoover should have the assistance of every citizen...
...Chicagoans, most excursionists to their World's Fair, recall with mingled emotions the turreted and crenellated brownstone "castle" abutting on lower Lake Shore Drive. The two acres of pleasaunce surrounding it confirm the impression of burlesque medievalism, of an architect strong in his delusion that a parapet here, a battlement there, comprise the ancient dignity of Kenilworth, Warwick, Elsinore, Tintagel...
...Woolcott has had a varied and interesting set of journalistic and dramatic experiences. At various times he has been dramatic critic of the New York Times, New York Sun, and the New York World. At present he is writing articles on the current theatrical season for Vanity Fair...
...Memorial Room the most noteworthy manuscript is the "Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D." This is entirely in Scott's own handwriting, and is in the uncorrected form. The first edition of "Ivanhoe" in the original boards should also attract bibliophiles. The first edition of "Vanity Fair" with Thackeray's own illustrations rivals the previously mentioned copy in rarity. The copy has the woodcut of Marcus Steyne which was later suppressed. There is, finally, an unpublished manuscript of Charlotte Broute's entitled, "Adventures of Captain Hasting," and several signed first editions of "Clarissa," and "Moll Flanders...
...here let us draw the well over this touching scene. And let us forever look askance at any proposal to abolish the present language requirements from fair Harvard. (Name withheld by request...