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Fair Play

by Alicia Potter In State Fair, the 1933 movie musical, the mother aims to win the bake-off; the father, the hog competition; and as for the teens, they're looking for love. Sixty-five years…

Brewer's: Fair

(The). Charles IV., King of France, le Bel (1294, 1322-1328). Philippe IV. of France, le Bel (1268, 1285-1314). Fair as Lady Done. A great Cheshire family that has long occupied a…

Brewer's: Fairing

(A). A present from a fair. The ing is a patronymic = a descendant of, come from, belonging to. “Fairings come thus plentifully in.” Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2. Source:…

Fair Verona

The Question: The story of Romeo and Juliet happened in Verona. Is there any place or thing in Verona, in connection to the play, that I could go see…

Lorrie Fair

Lorrie FairBorn: Aug. 5, 1978Soccer at 20, she was the youngest player on the 1999 American team that won the inaugural women's World Cup; member of U.S. 2000 women's olympic team; helped…

fair-trade laws

(Encyclopedia) fair-trade laws, in the United States, a former group of statutes that permitted manufacturers to specify the minimum retail price of a commodity. The first fair-trade law was adopted…

exposition

(Encyclopedia) exposition or exhibition, term frequently applied to an organized public fair or display of industrial and artistic productions, designed usually to promote trade and to reflect…

Brewer's: Cherry Fairs

Now called teagardens. Nothing to do with cherries; it is cheery fairs —i.e. gay or recreation fairs. A “cheering” is a merrymaking. Halliwell tells us that “Cherry (or rather chery) fairs…

Brewer's: Paddington Fair

A public execution. Tyburn, where executions formerly took place, is in the parish of Paddington. Public executions were abolished in 1868. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Brewer's: Statute Fairs

(See Mop.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SteakStatus of Great Men A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…