Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...especially enjoyed watching the bright faces and listening to the merry voices of the thousands of children . . . enormous crowds . . . delightful experience . . fine weather...
...York harbor. He succeeds the late Sir James Thomas Walter Charles, commander of the Aquitania, as chief of the Cunard fleet. Said he: "I have a real sorrow to think that I could not fly the commodore's burgee while Sir James was still alive. He was a fine seaman and a gentleman. The commodore's flag I have was his personal flag. One of the last orders he issued was that it be given to me, for he knew I was to succeed him on his retirement. My coming here as commodore is not entirely a happy...
Irish housewives bridled last week as gossips repeated to them a doctor's scorn: "You will not in the length and breadth of the world fine worse cooking than in Ireland or a worse lot of housekeepers...
...vote (1910) in favor of letting Jews keep their stores open on Sunday. When Editor White said that Assemblyman Smith had voted for "The Scarlet Woman of Babylon," he was stretching a point. But he had some basis of fact to go on. There used to be a fine distinction between hotels and saloons. Half-saloon, half-hotel were the assignation houses which evaded the intent of an act known as the Raines law, by renting regularly a specified number of bedrooms and handing out sandwiches or "free lunch" with drinks in lieu of serving meals. The Smith record included...
...along, They brought their speeches and their picnic-lunch, Their black constituent-hats and their devotion: Some even brought a little whisky, too. (A little whisky is a comforting thing For congressmen in the sun, in the heat of the sun.) The bearded congressmen with orators' mouths The fine, clean-shaved, Websterian congressmen, Come out to see the gladiator's show. But from a high place, as befits the wise, You will not see the long windrows of men Strewn like dead pears before the Henry House Or the stonewall of Jackson breathe its parched Devouring breath upon...