Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only fair to warn all men to beware of the long, shiny things hanging from the roofs of the classroom buildings. Harvard Hall has the undisputed blue-ribbon icicle of the Yard. It measures a good three feet from tip to tip, and tapers from a saucer-like beginning down to a needle-sharp nonentity. At precisely the stroke of eleven o'clock this morning, a neighbor of this glistening giant gave one sickening shudder and came crashing earthward among the terrified students of "Shakespeare complete" as they elbowed their way into the Hall. Pale, twitching faces gratefully expressed...
Neville Chamberlain chose she could give Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's My Day a brisk run for its lineage. The wife of the Prime Minister observed early this month as she opened the London Sunday Times National Book Fair: ''I understand from the press that my chief occupation" is darning the Prime Minister's socks...
Jovial young Physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence has an 85-ton atom smasher at Berkeley, Calif. Intrigued by the Lawrence cyclotron, promoters of the Golden Gate International Exposition asked if they could borrow it to smash atoms for next year's fair. Physicist Lawrence, who was deep in experimentation, pointed to the protective wall of six-foot-high water tanks surrounding the cyclotron, explained that neutrons flying free as hail around an exhibition room might settle in the tissues of spectators, even render them sterile. The exposition officials hastily retired, and last fortnight they hatched plans to exhibit a model...
...Daily Mail (1.530,000) from his brother, Lord Northcliffe, a sensationalist who fathered the whole lordly breed. No. 1, by intelligence, ability, resource and his gift for the common touch-as well as by circulation figures- is William Maxwell (''Max") Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook. He is a fair little man whose possessions include the smile and manners of a spoiled bad boy, two other newspapers besides the Express, two sons, a daughter, two houses, a personal fortune of some $40,000,000. He has a reputation for extravagance and big-time caprice which caused no less an analyzer...
Considering the title and the trite subject matter, "Hold That Coed," current feature at the University is good entertainment. The gags go over well; the songs are fair. George Murphy, the coy hero, might be popular with the Radcliffe girls, but he doesn't stand up against John Barrymore who really acts in spite of his absurd part as governor-politician who gains reelection by backing his successful college football team. "Broadway Musketeers" is slushy-sentimental and not recommended. A short on gliding and soaring is well worth seeing for those interested in that most wonderful of sports...