Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Standard Symphonic Concerts ever staged in The Borough of The Bronx." Handsomest Conductor Marrow is a Virginia-born batonist who was once musical director of the Provincetown Players and who, last spring, put on some chamber concerts at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel at which audiences put themselves in fine fettle by drinking and smoking while listening to music by 35 players, mostly from the New York Philharmonic Symphony. Mr. Marrow and the same 35 turned up in The Bronx Concourse Plaza last fortnight as the New Court Symphony. But ten players had to be jettisoned at once when...
...Santa Barbara, Calif, courtroom last Thursday Judge Fred T. Harsh glanced sharply at a young man arraigned before him for speeding, twinkled, ruled: "I'm fining you $10-or two touchdowns against Redlands." Next night Halfback Howard Yeager of Santa Barbara State College worked off his fine by plunging 12 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter, pulling down a 21-yd. pass behind the goal line for another in the second quarter. Final score: Santa Barbara 31, Redlands...
...third prize ($500) winner, Family Portrait by young Josef Pieper of Düsseldorf, Germany, was distinguished by that finality of excellence which makes good critics stand long and stare. Nazi Pieper's painting, which this year won the State Prize for painting at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, seemed to many critics more successful in the first part of the artist's purpose: "To subdue every element-drawing, form and substance-" than in the second: "To achieve a reality from within rather than from without...
...fitting and hothouse about the designs for public buildings and monuments which graduates of great architectural schools turn out every year. Also apparent was the fact that there is something faddish and affected or else starved and forbidding about many examples of so-called "functional" design. After the fine economies of Colonial building disappeared in the U. S. during the 19th Century, isolated architects of talent were lost in a great drive of construction at any cost. New standards of design and a new rationale of architecture have not since been established in U. S. minds and efforts to establish...
...trees in Fredericksburg's city park for the 239th renewal of Fredericksburg's famed dog mart. According to tradition it; was founded to pacify warring Indians who had no need of the usual peace offerings of beads, muskets or rum, but who coveted the colonists' fine dogs. It has evolved into a meeting where all comers can auction and buy dogs of all varieties...