Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ones publicly roasted in the correspondence column making that like yours an amusing feature. Result the paper grew out of its native earth and some fine story writers and poets uncovered. Condensation was the main need. Editor Archibald used to say to us scribes: "If you have an idea for a story see if you can boil it down to ten-line par [paragraph] and then to a one-line epigram." As he paid only on space it was Spartan ruling. The best sonnets ever written by Aussies-Bayldons on Marlowe and O'Downds "Last sea-thing dredged...
...Finally, the standard of good taste is not a negative thing, merely keeping us from wrong. It is a creative thing. That is why your generation is so fine, so much cleaner, healthier, more promising than my generation. For when a generation discovers that the old codes cannot be used and sets up for themselves high standards of their own they have much firmer ground on which to proceed...
...pressure of 10 to 50 pounds a square inch more than ordinary is maintained and keeps them there for from a few hours to a month. Some patients merely spend their nights in the tank treatment rooms; others live and sleep in them. The rooms resemble, except for their fine appointments, the air locks used in excavating tunnels...
Impressed, Magistrate Glatzmeyer did not fine Mr. McCaffery for driving on the wrong side of the street, predicted a brilliant career as a lawyer for McCaffery Junior, smart son of a smart father...
...then states that the conspicuous examples of "the latter" are too long to rewrite. The oft-repeated and hackneyed objection to "famed," "one," "onetime," and "able," is a poor substitute for criticism, and in any case there is nothing "false" about these terms, nor do they purport to be "fine writing." We know, as all writers (and especially journalists) know, that these words are overworked and unavoidably so, but to stigmatize them as "atrociously bad" is idiotic. Mr. Dowse has evidently not studied etymology or he would know that the word "atrocious" (Latin atrox, "fierce," "truculent") cannot be suitably applied...