Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last summer. Drummer in the village band, Tinker gained further favor because he was Speen's ace darts player. "Miss Ishbel" has her own team of dart throwers which she pits against teams from neighboring pubs. Tinker is her captain. "I think darts a very clean and fine sport. I wish to encourage the game," she once explained...
...ller not to imprisonment in jail but to "honorable detention in a fortress"* for seven months. Showing definite leniency, the court, which might have given Niemöller two years, decreed he had already served more than the sentence imposed while awaiting trial, need only pay a $600 fine to go free last week, so far as the court was concerned...
...play, Altars of Steel, had reached its 15th and climactic scene. The boss was barricaded inside his factory. A mob was milling outside the gates. A Liberal swung at a Communist, the Communist shot him, company guards shot the Communist. Ensued a terrific free-for-all which seemed like fine convincing stuff to the audience. And it was. Carried away by the action, the mob had suddenly taken violent sides, started swinging at each other in earnest. When the curtain came down, three limp actors were stretched out on the stage...
After the show, the President asked Louis Schaffer, executive director for Labor Stage, Inc., how the Manhattan critics had reviewed the show. Said Schaffer: "Fine." "Even the Sun?" asked...
...moods to Tchaikovsky or Wagner, keeps a slinky-eyed hostess (Anna May Wong), is dangerous to know because he eliminates occasional associates with sad-eyed sadism. With his town's financial and civic agencies pretty well in thrall he makes the social error of trying to snare a fine-feathered society girl (Gail Patrick), accidentally spills a little salt on his own tail, ends up where the righteous Hays office likes to see all enemies of society...