Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the President of a country shows a fine sense of humor, that is a healthy and excellent thing. But when the people of an entire section are made to suffer from that sense of humor, justice is not being done...
...racket was as old as life and disability insurance. That it was able to involve such a man as Dean Wyckoff was testimony to the fine art it has become. The racket: fraudulent doctors and lawyers give a heavily insured "patient"' violent exercises, purges and doses of digitalis. When they achieve a plausible specimen of exhaustion and palpitation, they get his condition on record by hospitalizing him under a conspiring physician's care. Cardiograms, sphygmomanometer readings, charts and reports pile up the evidence. Then comes the payoff: the certification of a reputable heart specialist, called in to examine...
...little chair studying a document. Liberal Justice Brandeis, 80, most ancient member of the Court, looks gauntly on. Conservative Justice Van Devanter, hearing one of his last cases, has his fingers before his mouth. The Chief Justice fingers his snowy mustache. Conservative Justice McReynolds stares meditatively at the fine ceiling of the court room (not shown in the picture). Conservative Justice Sutherland lounges at one side of his chair. Liberal Justice Stone has his hand partly before his face. Liberal Justice Cardozo leans wearily upon one elbow...
Because the paintings of Pierre Auguste Renoir are not only great but pretty, as he once said paintings should be, few years go by without a new Renoir exhibition in Paris or the U. S. In 1933 the Chicago Art Institute included a fine roomful of Renoirs in its Century of Progress loan exhibition, and two years ago the Durand-Ruel Galleries showed 30 choice canvases in Manhattan (TIME, March 25, 1935). Last week the most comprehensive U. S. exhibition of Renoir since the painter's death in 1919 drew hundreds of Manhattanites to the Metropolitan Museum...
...color, composed contented, decorous figures moving softly, if at all. Three of his best paintings, now at the Metropolitan, show how permanently he thus set down what he saw of Paris life in the 1870s and '80s: Le Bal áBougival, just acquired by" the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (see cut); Au Moulin de la Colette, lent by John Hay Whitney, and Le Déjeuner des Canotiers, from the Phillips Memorial Gallery...