Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been sent to the Dessau post office, much of it from stamp collectors addressing U. S. friends asking that the cancelled stamps be returned. Next the pilots loaded in rations prepared by their good fraus: sausage, chocolate, zwieback, hard-boiled eggs, bananas, lemons, orange juice, tea. A bottle of fine brandy was rejected as too heavy. Officials clapped them on the backs; fraus kissed them goodbye. They climbed into the planes. With them climbed Hubert R. Knickerbocker, U. S. newspaperman representing the Hearst newspapers; also Baron Gunther von Huehnefeld, publicity man for the North German Lloyd steamship line. Both passengers...
Came an honest and original answer: "Fine! Fine...
Said Edsel Ford last week: "Byrd is a great fellow. He is a gentleman, a scientist and altogether likeable. I enjoy being behind him in such enterprises." Said Commander Richard E. Byrd: "Both the Fords are fine people. Henry Ford is great because he dreams and has ideals and puts them into practice. It was a wonderful experience to talk with him." Each spoke after a conference in Detroit after which Edsel Ford said he would help financially to back a Byrd flight over the South Pole as he helped back him to the North Pole. The South Pole trip...
...problem in definition. What is an "artist"? The Labor Department holds that "a professional musician is properly regarded as a professional artist for the purpose of exemption." The Union would restrict the term "artist" to "one who is adept, has attained great knowledge and skill in the fine art known as music and who, as a vocation, practices that art for the advancement and welfare of mankind" (Paderewski, Kreisler, Ysaye, Toscanini...
...Significance of a new Wells book nowadays is somewhat the same as one more cake of yeast in a maturing batch of beer. To the enormous public that reads him, Mr. Wells long since imparted the whole quality, if not the whole quantity, of his fine ferment. Meanwhile might have started up a great fizzing two decades ago when Mr. Wells was building time-machines and worlds beyond the Milky...