Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Courtney's crews were not only consistently fine but I think still hold all of the records for all classes of college racing and for all distances, which casts somewhat of a shadow on your statement. Some of Courtney's crews of our time or near it, deserve special mention because they rank among the great athletic teams of all times. The 1901 Varsity took advantage of unusually favorable water conditions at Poughkeepsie to establish a world's record of 18 minutes 53½ seconds for 4 miles. Bert Coffin's 1903 boat load of giants...
...dark blue upholstery in his office which nothing in official Washington approaches, not even the redecorated White House. His apartment on Massachusetts Avenue is hung, not with an Art Collection, but with pictures of lovely women, unmistakable gentlemen, young girls, old ladies, painted because they were fit subjects for fine art by Vermeer, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Romney, Lawrence, Hals, Rembrandt, and bought by Andrew Mellon because life is a fine art and such things belong to it naturally when you can afford them. Something of the same instinct that acquired the Mellon paintings is also seen in the Mellon motor...
...House. An authentic Irish flavor, a grand horse race and a Citizen Hogan (Victor McLaglen) who says: "You'll have to excuse me for a while, as I've got a man to kill," are refreshing in the film version of Donn Byrne's fine novel...
...appeal to "his aesthetic side if he had any." Atheist Smith pointed out that it would be quite natural for a clergyman to send an atheist Christian propaganda. After so doing, Atheist Smith was found guilty of sending letters with intent to annoy. The judges sentenced him to $100 fine or 30 days in the workhouse. Atheist Smith paid the fine, but appealed their verdict...
Most of the fine or the expensive pictures which are sold abroad (see below) are bought by wealthy U. S. collectors. Over a long period of years, perhaps as much as $250,000,000 worth of works of art have left England for the U. S. This fact has caused sentimental Britons to feel pangs of regret and it last week caused Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, to offer caustic reproof rather than sympathy to the sentimental Britons. Wrote rich Mr. Brisbane, whose splendid homes are by no means bare of pictures...