Fairbanks
Speech parts
1. Fairbanks - Noun
2. Fairbanks - Proper noun
Meaning
United States film actor noted for his swashbuckling roles (1883-1939)
United States film actor; son of Douglas Elton Fairbanks, (1909-2000)
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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.
I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.
About 5.3% speak other languages at home. citation The Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks claims that at least 20 Alaskan native languages exist and there are also some languages with different dialects.
As a culture Charlie Chaplin stands on Douglas Fairbanks ' shoulders during a rally at Wall Street in 1918.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A Fairbanks man killed his girlfriend in the apartment they shared and moved her body to a vacant unit across a hallway in the same building, according to state prosecutors.