Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some $600,000 worth of precious gems on approval so he could select a few stones for his Queen-to-be, impoverished, half-American, 22-year-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. Albania's fierce, feuding tribesmen were not surprised. Wily Zog, a onetime clan chieftain of fine old farming ancestry, has always done his business on the approval basis. He shopped for a bride in the same way. At least one European lady of title, suitable and willing to become Zog's Queen, made the arduous, chaperoned journey to Tirana, Albania's odorous, backward little capital...
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (Vienna Philharmonic, Bruno Walter conducting; Victor: 10 sides) and Symphony No. 4 in E Minor (London Symphony, Felix Weingartner conducting; Columbia: 10 sides). Of the month's two Brahms symphonies, Weingartner's Fourth is fine enough to supersede all previous recordings. Walter's First is a good, conservative, slightly draggy performance...
Printed on fine paper the original scroll was six feet, eight inches long, and two feet, 5-16 inches in width, but years of deterioration have reduced it to a mere fragment of three feet in length. It was remounted, when discovered, on a substantial silk cloth...
Most of the plans and photographs on view in the exhibit at the Architectural School are of works done abroad. The designs are illustrated by many fine pictures with plans that he has drawn attached. Showing well the wide scope of his imagination is the "Garden City of the Future." The buildings are arranged so that a maximum amount of light enters every part and with wide expanses of glass and white glistening exteriors the impression given is that of light, airy construction. Wide boule-yards run symmetrically throughout the city and on every side are beautifully landscaped gardens...
Over 90 students registered yesterday at University Hall, an unprecedented number of late arrivals. They will not, however, be subject to the $5 fine usually invoked in such cases, because of extraordinary difficulties in transportation caused by the storm. University Hall officials stated that both Freshmen and upperclassmen were numbered among tardy students...