Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known that her charitable works are many, and it is said that she piously sees in her husband's rise to power "the awful workings of Divine Providence." Her housekeeping is hospitable and hearty. She takes care that the family board is loaded with many a fine pudding, many a ripe, odorous cheddar cheese. To her children she is wisely indulgent but strict in matters of religion. Even as tots they were not allowed-say friends of the family-to begin their prayers with "Now I lay me down to sleep;" rather, from the first, they lisped, "Our Father...
...industry only recently become civilized, should already have produced the rarest and most delicate flower of decadent aristocracy, an example of supreme elegance. It would be unfair to say that Dandy Menjou is an actor as well as an example. All his roles are the same; he wears fine clothes to hide his scrawny shanks; he gets all his effects by raising one corner of his triangular mustaches, by flipping one hand in a small arc to indicate either the tremendous futility of life or his willingness to marry a rich & beautiful woman. In Serenade he impersonates a young composer...
Helen of Troy is a legend whose life has passed, like an old coat, from king to courtier, from courtier to servant, from servant to beggar. Homer wrote about a fine and glittering lady; Marlowe found lines like golden bells, for a casual queen; John Erskine made the legend into a matrimonial farce, and now the matrimonial farce has become a cinema, played against Maxfield Parrish walls and valleys, by Maria Corda, a pretty little blonde girl with an affected way of showing her teeth...
From now on the football season may lack this fine and frenzied final, the Army v. Navy game. Last week letters went from Annapolis to West Point stating certain differences in athletic rulings which made football games between the two unequal contests; requesting that these differences be removed. The Army could not agree to remove the differences; returned the 1928 game contract unsigned...
Women have yet to equal men as masters of the fine arts. They have aspired to them, plodded away at them, had very creditable results in occasional instances. They have produced a painter like Mary Cassatt, but Painter Cassatt specialized in women & children, in subjects bound to be peculiarly within a woman's scope: like Rosa Bonheur, whose specialty was domestic animals. There are no women's names to be ranked with Velasquez, Franz Hals, Romney, Holbein. True, in literature they have done more with such handmaidens as George Eliot, Jane Austin, Charlotte Brontë, to put against...