Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explanation, aside from professional jealousy and personal politics, was that the man who, as owner of the Yankees, contracts for Fielder Ruth's services, is Col. Jacob Ruppert, onetime beer-brewer. "If Babe Ruth ever posed with any Dry," said a fan, "Jake Ruppert'd slap a fine on him quicker'n you can say 'three strikes...
They could not keep Jules, doorman for M. Briand, from appearing in all his medals. Jules said "War is abominable, but the army ... is fine." Also spoke Jules, "This American, too, Mr. Kellogg. Perhaps he will get to understand France better, like the American Ambassador does, and will make jokes and laugh like Mr. Herrick does with M. Briand...
Goin' Home. Negroes make fine figures for the drama. Their emotions, less obscure and tangled than those of Caucasians, are also less controlled. Theirs, too, is a tragic and extraordinary position in a white man's world. In his admirable play, which won the Longmans, Green Drama League prize, it is this theme, not the entirely black disasters and delights of Porgy, which Ransom Rideout builds upon...
...vanillin lacks vanilla's fine bouquet. The two are sold mixed for bakers and housewives...
There is a pious belief* held by many ignorant persons, that in holy water no disease can breed or be transmitted. Pious the belief may be, but nevertheless in Balboa, C. Z., last week, the Archbishop was ordered to pay a $50 fine or close the Cathedral because mosquitoes were breeding in unhealthy and rabbit-like fashion in the fonts holding holy water...