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Fairbanks   /fˈɛrbəŋks/   Listen
Fairbanks

noun
1.
United States film actor; son of Douglas Elton Fairbanks, (1909-2000).  Synonym: Douglas Fairbanks Jr..
2.
United States film actor noted for his swashbuckling roles (1883-1939).  Synonyms: Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks, Julius Ullman.






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"Fairbanks" Quotes from Famous Books



... machinery. Boards were now planed, and bricks pressed, by machine. It was during this period that the farmers began to give up the flail for the thrashing machine; that paper was extensively made from straw; that Fairbanks invented the platform scales; that Colt invented the revolver; that steel pens were made by machine; and that a rude form of friction ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... edge of the suburbs of Greater Spokane. The air lane followed almost directly above one of the crowded ten-lane North American Continental Thruways that cut five-mile wide swaths across the continent from Fairbanks to the southern borders of Mexico; from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., ...
— The Thirst Quenchers • Rick Raphael

... who seemed to be enjoying the sport most heartily, were two of the boys, Timothy Wallace and Frederic Fairbanks, the latter of whom was the son of our old gunner; and, in a laughing mood, they started out from the studding sail on a race. There was a loud ringing shout of joy on their lips as they put off, and they darted through the water like fishes. The surface of the sea was smooth ...
— Sanders' Union Fourth Reader • Charles W. Sanders

... firmness with which they kept their saddles, under circumstances enough to unhorse a Centaur. We noted, particularly, one cavalier, known in the lists as the Knight of RUDESHEIMER. He keeps a pork store in Fulton Avenue, and turned a Fairbanks Scale, but two days before the tourney, at 275 lbs. This gallant rode a very sprightly steed, which struggled under the double calamity of being slightly spavined and quite blind in the left eye. One of the effects of the latter misfortune was to keep the animal constantly in ...
— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 12 , June 18,1870 • Various

... Klondike charge; 'Twas a malamute first saw Lake Bennett And left his footprints at La Barge; They hauled the first mail into Dawson, That Land of the Old Timer's dream, And when Wada first drove in from Fairbanks He ...
— Rhymes of a Roughneck • Pat O'Cotter

... Massachusetts, settling at Oakham, and in the district schools of this town Charles Adams received the most of his early education. When sixteen years of age he began business as a clerk in a country store at Petersham, and there remained five years. He then became bookkeeper for J.B. Fairbanks & Co., at Ware, but after a year's service in this position left it to enter the employ of T. and E. Batcheller & Co., at North Brookfield, as their bookkeeper. For twenty-eight years he remained with Batcheller ...
— The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 • Various



Words linked to "Fairbanks" :   Douglas Elton Fairbanks, histrion, Douglas Fairbanks, actor, Julius Ullman, thespian, player, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., role player



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