Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parading the streets to pervert justice for a Bolshevist fishmonger and a Bolshevist ditchdigger, both of them murderers, both of them anarchists ! Imagine gentle Henry James, that master of manners and nicety, bawling out disorderly epithets at policemen, judges and governors! I say it is a sin against a fine tradition for newspapers and for TIME to harp on the fact that this rowdy roisterer, this half-baked "intellectual," this "radical nephew," Edward James, is related to his uncles. To decent Boston he seems more like a descendant of that other villain, Jesse James, the bandit...
...Vienna, Austria, a fortnight ago, a policeman strode up to one Michael O'Flaherty, tourist, and informed him that because he had dropped a tram car ticket on the street he was liable to pay a fine of 8½ schillings ($1.25) for "littering...
Scandalized, the policeman exacted for this "second offense" a fine of 17 schillings, plus 35 schillings more for "insulting the police...
...Hamilton Terrace in the northwest part of London. Few U. S. visitors have had the privilege of entering his cheery reception room, with its large windows, its creamy-tinted walls, etchings, photographs. Journalist Betty Ross made herself com fortable there; found it "a pleasure to listen to the fine flow of phrase, apart from the depth of their content, as they fall from the lips of the Chief Rabbi. His diction is graceful, his voice pleasant as it starts in moderate tones and becomes deeper and more intense as his words gather in force. You are surprised that...
...industry were invariably worded as cheerfully as possible. Biographers praised him after they had penetrated the colorless exterior of a man who, to promote the impersonal ends of a vast and complex organization, submerged his own personality. After he moved to Manhattan he collected art, raised fine cattle, went to the opera. But just before he left Wheaton, Ill., to be head of the Federal Corp., a friend found him sitting with his hunting coat, bag and gun in his lap. "I will never use them again," he said...