Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was a fight talk. Harlow decided to insert burly bucker Ben Smith to improve on the none too deceiving spinning fakes of Joe Gardella. Still Smith was not able to work any wonders for a little while, for Princeton had obviously scouted Harvard's spinners down to a fine point...
...line by closure, because any employer found in violation will be in a peck of trouble. He may have to pay his workers the difference between their substandard wages and the legal minima, plus an equal amount in damages. And he may have to pay a fine up to $10,000, spend up to six months in jail...
...stay in New Orleans in 1848. John Erskine pictures Whit man falling in love with an intelligent, Paris-educated quadroon, who bears his son. Inconsequential and not very convincing, the book gives an easy, informal portrait of Whitman, sketches of other historic figures, but is enriched with fine savory quotations from Whitman's poems which bring it to life when its story grows labored...
...listening to Cailliet's orchestration, the gloomy Rachmaninoff unbent, expressed himself as "happy" with the results. After the concert he unbent still further, told Philadelphia reporters he disliked swing but greatly admired the jazz of 15 years ago. "Ah," said Pianist Rachmaninoff, "if I could only hear that fine pianist, Eddy Duchin, playing Irving Berlin's Blue Skies, I'd be very happy...
...Chapayev," which was screened in 1934, is the powerful story of a Red commander during the Revolution, written by the widow of the political commissar who accompanied him into battle. To those who do not understand the Russian language, the film offers English sub-titles in addition to fine choral music and the direction and acting of Russia's finest artists...