Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan's sludgy East Side, where fine river bank apartment houses rise self-consciously in the midst of four-story squalor, was the locale of Playwright Sidney Kingsley's melodrama, Dead...
...offstage), sent a dance hall whizzing 20 miles through the air, he was not damning dance halls. He was proving to a skeptical Anglican parson (Frank Greene) miracles could still be performed, and he hit on the dance hall only because it was handy. The miracle was a fine success, but the Pope disapproved. "Too showy and new-fangled," said the bishop (St. Clair Bayfield). The dance-hall customers also complained, although, after the cabaret took off from its Edinburgh street, it made a perfect three-point landing on a crag at sea without spilling a drink or disturbing...
...indifferent in the one matter where indifference seems to be the keynote of the collegiate day. This is as it should be. Religion is still a moving factor in human life, although in some parts its struggle is increasingly difficult. The Harvard stand of non-indifference is a fine tribute to the men who have nurtured religion here, and it serves notice that some young men in a university proud of setting unusual styles still refuse to relinquish their high ideals...
...Jakob Rosenberg, of the Fine Arts Department, will give an illustrated lecture on "German Prints of the Late Gothic and Ronaissance" at the Germanic Museum on Thursday, December 2, at 4:30 o'clock...
...There is no reason why his latest should cause more of a splash than its predecessors. A collection of connected short stories (whimsically called "legends"), it describes a housemaid's dream of gilded ladies and ornate gentlemen, pursuing, amid the glint of diamonds and the smoke of fine cigars, their exquisitely sophisticated pleasures...