Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fair Wyoming morning last week, Hollywood's Wallace Beery rose up early at his ranch in the rugged Jackson Hole country, donned an old shirt, blue denim pants and cowboy boots. He put on his big black Stetson with the chin strap, grabbed his trusty six-shooter and climbed aboard his trusty white mare. In the fresh morning air he rode through the fertile valley to join a posse of ranchers...
...Botanical Garden in 1901, he accidentally exploded it, picked up some of the blasted grains, tasted them, found he had achieved puffed rice. Quaker Oats's interest in his product made him a fortune. He was a notable attraction at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, where he blew grain out of a gunlike apparatus billed as "the Eighth Wonder of the World...
...base in the Army's Desert Training Center (Calif.), Captain Francis E. Rogan made an inspection, finally commented: "The camouflage is only fair. They'd better work on it." Then he drove his staff car smack into the outfit's camouflaged staff headquarters, crashed one wheel into a dugout room...
Captain Magruder's "Miscellaneous" command will include such groups as the Soil Engineers now studying airport construction. As head of Army personnel at the Med School, Captain Fair-banks will take care of such administrative duties as leaves, discipline, and any military training...
This Happy Breed, a cavalcade of lower middle class life in a London suburb between two wars, is an attempted salute to the common man. Extending from 1919 to 1939, it tells the sometimes drab story of the durable Gibbons family, their births, marriages, deaths, their small joys and fair-sized sorrows. Rich in accurate observation, and at moments funny, it is lean on drama and lacking in depth. No British Chekhov or even Odets, Coward has the wish to be a serious dramatist without the wherewithal. A born sophisticate, he is at ease on figure skates, but slightly awkward...