Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this reason perhaps you can answer a question that has perplexed me for some time. Unless my memory has failed me, it is ten or fifteen years since the Rev. William ("Billy") Sunday, the famous evangelist, has been in New York. Now I think this would be a fine time for him to come to New York, because of the prohibition raids on "night clubs" and the presidential campaign. Can it be that he is afraid to come to New York, as I have heard? I do not like to think that "Billy" Sunday would be afraid to meet...
...Chinaman" and "Chinamen." But "Britishmen" (TIME, Aug. 13) is different. I am a Canadian and have no personal interest in the matter; but my wife's brother is one of King George's famous "Coldstream Guards," and I would not like to think of such a fine young fellow as a "Britishman." I realize that "Englishman" is too narrow a term, and "Briton" is as bad as writing "Frenchie" instead of "Frenchman." Still I believe that a better word than "Britishman" can be coined. What is really needed, however, is some word which will describe we citizens...
Legger Dwyer, who had served a year and six months of his term. The reason: a very sick man was Legger Dwyer. After paying the government a $10,000 fine, he entrained for Manhattan...
Last week this vice was vigorously corn-batted by a circular order to conductors on the Rumanian State Railways, authorizing them to collect a small fine from all non-smoking sniffers caught in smoking compartments...
...agreed might still be subjected to prohibitions and restrictions by the various nations. It was agreed that Chile, for example, might continue temporarily to exercise governmental control over her imports of scrap iron and scrap zinc, and over the importation of hares. Portugal retained temporary control of her fine wool and raw cork exports. Bulgaria chose to guard her exports of rose trees, roots, shoots; Sweden, her scrap iron; Czechoslovakia, her hop shoots...