Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Dakota stood up at the state beauty contest at Yankton, S. Dak., to make a speech on the subject of the "World's Fair." Said he: "I did some talking lately and got into trouble. Therefore I am going to play safe tonight. It's a fine evening, isn't it. I am sure no one can disagree with that statement tonight. It is certainly a fine evening, isn't it? Good-night...
...hard time didn't Mr. Hoover come to fetch us to de high ground .... Sho' would make a noble president." And a white man was said to have remarked: "We think Hoover is the most useful American of his day. Why, he'd make a fine President...
Detective Thomas Tunney, brother of champion Fisticuffer Gene Tunney, brought some comfort to perturbed police when he apprehended one Charles Colze, who, while employed in the Natural History Museum of Manhattan as porter, had carried off eight fine bird-of-paradise plumes...
...race and she clambers into the car to feed him pumpkin pie while he roars around the track. The heroine (Phyllis Haver) fears this will be the death of the 70-year-old lady, so she commandeers an ambulance and tears after them. In the end, everybody is feeling fine, including the audience and a patient who is discovered crawling out of the ambulance...
Twelve Miles Out (John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Joan Crawford). A fine pair of illicit international traffickers are John Gilbert and Ernest Torrence. In Europe they smuggle firearms and diamonds. In the U. S. they are liquor barons. Being rivals in business, in facial attraction, in drinking capacity, they love to cause each other physical and financial embarrassment. The final episode finds Mr. Gilbert piloting his rumrunner off the coast of Long Island, with a charming society girl (Joan Crawford) on board against her will. Out of the night comes Mr. Torrence, with his rough-and-rum-necks, to capture...