Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...polite interest in abnormality is expected in all those who have learned to take their Lindsey straight, President Frank barred Mrs. Russell. But since a touch of nature now makes the whole world read, where it once merely left the room, the conviction has grown that it was unfair not to give Mrs. Russell her chance to tell...
...Feng Yu-hsiang, who moves constantly about China with a mobile haste, assembled his generals in Chenchow, Honan Province, last week. To them he read a riot act which amounted to the warning that he will positively capture Peking, next spring, and that thereafter "China will not stand further unfair treatment from other countries...
...victorious Marines. Not doing so can only be construed as an act of the grossest ill-breeding. It also, like non-scouting, makes for suspicion--suspicion that perhaps there were no dead, though of course the gallant American commander reports that the mortality among the rebels, despite their unfair tactics, was "heavy...
Serenade (Adolphe Menjou). It is curious that the cinema, an industry only recently become civilized, should already have produced the rarest and most delicate flower of decadent aristocracy, an example of supreme elegance. It would be unfair to say that Dandy Menjou is an actor as well as an example. All his roles are the same; he wears fine clothes to hide his scrawny shanks; he gets all his effects by raising one corner of his triangular mustaches, by flipping one hand in a small arc to indicate either the tremendous futility of life or his willingness to marry...
...interview in the New York Times, Booth Tarkington rails against the overeducation of college students, and declares that the only fit companion for a young student of his acquaintance is a professor of Greek. This is manifestly unfair both to the highly learned masses who went no more than through grammar school, and to the professors of Greek. A glance at the human dramas called advertisements among which Mr. Tarkington's stories are inserted should have long since convinced him that the remark about not having to go to college to get an education is no empty aphorism, and that...