Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Johnson's mailable "fighting words" [TIME, Dec. 19] have a fine, ringing sound, and are most of them notable on that score, not for their intelligibility...
There are good folk-dancing and singing in Everywhere I Roam, and fine pictorial moments. But the play itself is dull, and its message is hopelessly sentimental and confused. It is one thing to satirize the evils of predatory industrialism and hymn the praises of clean and sturdy toil. But it is nonsense to give the impression that hardship is better than ease, that back-breaking hours over a plow are beautiful, that the hand is quicker than the machine, or that the profit motive was first discovered shortly before the Civil...
...Have Promised; Onward, Christian Soldiers; Softly Now the Light of Day. Last week Rt. Rev. Benjamin Dunlap Dagwell, chub-cheeked Episcopal Bishop of Oregon, suggested that these old soldiers be given a rest. Said the Bishop, who has sung them since he was a chub-cheeked choirboy: "They are fine hymns and should be used from time to time, but I get tired of singing them about a hundred times a year...
Governor Leverett Saltonstall: "Fine appointment...
Some 4,000 miles from Arequipa, Peru, where the fine under-hairs of the vicuña's fleece bring around $14 a pound, dwells Sylvan I. Stroock. His S. Stroock & Co., Inc. of New York is the leading U. S. manufacturer of rare expensive fabrics-camel's hair, llama, cashmere and vicuña, most costly of all these...