Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week to Harry Parker, having bowed and waddled through Congressional corridors for 63 years, came the finest gift of all: his $130 monthly salary as long as he lives, plus a tribute from the House of Representatives in fine oratorical style. Harry Parker, gleaming in the gallery, sporting a necktie as yellow as the pine-apple-orangeades he serves, heard himself declared faithful . . . loyal . . . cheery . . . diligent . . . courteous...
Premier to keep in Japan's background and pursue a policy of bedseat driving, for everything depended on whether China's Dictator was now ready at last to risk in war with Japan his fine fleet of U. S. and Italian fighting planes and the German-trained Chinese regiments called "Chiang's Own." All these China's Dictator withheld from action at the time...
...great Oriental races gave the. world a fine example of placidity as they waited about in Tientsin between the rounds of so-called "battles," amounting last week to little more than skirmishes...
...received some photographs from her husband, mailed weeks ago from the Far East. There was also a letter. Excerpt: "Amelia is a grand person for such a trip. She is the only woman flyer I would care to make such a trip with because in addition to being a fine companion she can take hardship as well as a man?and work like...
...delicate pearl grey. Difficult to capture alive, chinchillas are shot by Indians with blow-guns using poisoned darts. The wound is only a pinprick, does not injure the pelt. Price of each pelt may be as low as $50 for a coarse, short-haired specimen, $500 for a particularly fine...