Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles F. Wenger stores carrying angry strike signs. Last week, Mayor Livermore submitted to his borough commission a new idea for restricting picketing. He proposed an ordinance imposing a $50 weekly license fee on anyone who wants to carry a sign on Ridgewood's streets. Penalties: $200 fine or 90 days in jail or both. His argument: while a man's civil liberties give him the right to walk the streets and express himself, the privilege of carrying signs is taxable...
...party conversation between Germany's new 100% Nazi Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Dr. Herbert von Dirksen, and the beauteous 23-year-old Duchess of Roxburghe, a granddaughter of the late great Liberal Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery. Dr. Dirksen: "I suppose you get your fine black eyes from your Scottish ancestry?" The Duchess: "No, Your Excellency, I think it must be my Jewish ancestry. One of my grandfathers was Baron Meyer de Rothschild...
Like Bellows in Mouquin's, the typical U. S. professional in the fine arts for many years worked in the world but was not of it. He kept his methods to himself; when plain people noticed him at all they suspected him; few people had a chance to discover his dignity, and when discovered it was usually misinterpreted. Much has happened in the last few years to alter this national condition...
Back of the whole set-up was a belief that the more plain workmanship with canvas, wood, stone, metals, textiles, clay and color goes on in a country, the finer fine arts it may produce. Holger Cahill is fond of using a fact of nature to illustrate his theory of national art: "You don't often find mountains where there is no plateau." Hostile critics have rejoined that plateaus and genuine art movements alike are beyond the power of governments to create. But even such critics admit that the Federal Art Project has gone about...
...meteorites are worth money as scientific exhibits. Harvey Harlow Nininger of Denver, indefatigable meteorite-chaser-and-broker, usually pays a rate of $1 per pound for these fragments, sometimes more for unusually fine specimens (TIME, July 5, 1937). Dr. Nininger was vacationing in New England last week, apparently biding his time until the lost pallasite was actually found. But anybody could figure that at his base rate the meteorite would bring...