Word: fairest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been reading the criticisms that have been heaped upon you by some of the Boston newspapers, and particularly the serial articles in the Boston Globe which I have always considered the fairest and best football paper in Boston. Perhaps I have some prejudice because of my friendship and admiration for Mel Webb...
...town in North America, seemed to him the most civilized in the colonies. Even so, he found that "The middling sort of people here are to a degree dissingenuous and dissembling, which appears even in their common conversation in which their indirect and dubious answers to the plainest and fairest questions show their suspicions of one another." But the women, added Hamilton, were "for the most part, free and affable as well as pritty. I saw not one prude while I was here...
...were seized. Electric canes were appropriated on sight. Fat and fiftyish, the average delegate spent his time forlornly window-shopping with his wife, listening to assorted oratory. He perked up enough to review the lissome candidates for "Miss Majorette of America for 1948," voted Illinois' Mary Jean Peterson fairest of them all. But the big, 5½-hour parade was marred by a drenching rain...
...large body of men from a small number of private schools. These men, as has been pointed out, make generous alumni, and they therefore perform a valuable function while Harvard remains a privately endowed institution. Nonetheless the Admissions Committee should continue to work toward the most efficient and fairest intellectual entrance tests, screening out men whose ability to make use of the College is doubtful...
...upper crust. Nobody without money, blue blood, or both gained membership in the secret men's clubs or "krewes"* which staged them. Before 1900 there were only five clubs: Comus, Momus, Twelfth Night, Rex and Proteus. They culled guest lists with pernickety care, asked only the fairest of debutantes to serve as carnival queens. But times changed. The socially ambitious began forming their own krewes...