Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...President in this hour of urgency had two ends in view. One was speed to meet a grim short-term deadline-the fair skies of spring in England, when Hitler may invade Britain. The other was to expand the whole U. S. economy into enormous productivity for the long-term struggle against a possibly victorious Axis -a project that was moving like a big river, so broad that the actual speed of the current was almost imperceptible...
After Act I the psychological exposé of these diseased characters turns into a pretty fair murder mystery. On the evening of his first try at playacting, the novelist is found shot in his hotel bed room. Suspected are a whole stageful of sophisticates, including the novelist's mistress, a South American general, a shy French playwright, brilliantly acted by Austrian Oscar Karlweis, and a fat, macabre play director, who threatens just before the body is found: "I'll club him to death with his own truss." Crime Club members may get to thinking about the denouement...
When the American Express Co. sold off its motorized wheel chairs after the New York World's Fair, Fair President Harvey Gibson bought three to scoot around his estate...
Crusty Director Heil, who had already made himself famous by gathering the bang-up art exhibitions of San Francisco's World's Fair, was noted in the U. S. art world for his determination. For a year he negotiated, first with Paris, then with the Vichy Government, guaranteed shipment costs, promised to keep the collection safe until the war was over. Last October he managed to get the pictures from Buenos Aires as far as New York, where they were promptly frozen as part of the assets of France. Stymied, Director Heil started sending letters to Congressmen, even...
...vaudeville trouper, made his bid for No. 1 U. S. professional Santa by booking a round of Clausing (at $5 to $25 an appearance) in Portland, Ore. private homes and clubs. It was his 51st consecutive season in the business. Since his first appearance in a window of The Fair (Chicago department store) in the bitter winter of 1890, Claus Gokey has earned $15,000 at his jocular sideline. He has also acquired a high scorn for the thousands of street-corner and department-store Santas who have followed in his footsteps. Said he: "They scare children...