Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miller, tried with onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Daugherty for defrauding the Government, was convicted and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and a fine of $5,000. On Daugherty, one juror disagreed and he was discharged. Miller began to serve his term last April. He behaved himself well in jail and was to have been discharged next July. Last December he was recommended for parole. In spite of the custom of releasing convicts at Christmas time. Attorney General Sargent did not see fit to sign the parole then. But he did not forget. He bided his time, until his last...
...United Artists). D. W. Griffith's feeling for costume gives a certain conviction to the romantic story of a French count who finds his future wife, a countess, in the arms of another. He then falls in love with Lupe Velez, a cabaret entertainer dressed up and taught fine manners by the countess, who wants to fool her prospective husband. Miss Velez proves she has not lost her energy. Comtesse Jetta Goudal's weak face and sloping shoulders are in the best idiom of the Second Empire. Best shot: Lupe Velez eating when she isn't hungry...
...racer, failed to do well, was sold for $75, hauled a hotel omnibus for a year, and then, in 1908, came to glory. There was Moifaa, an ugly grey gelding, shipped from New Zealand with high hopes in 1904. There was a shipwreck. Moifaa was believed drowned. But one fine morning two Irishmen-fishermen-found the horse on a barren island. They trained him on Ireland's oldtime Fairyhouse course and when the horses ran that year at Aintree it was Moifaa, the castaway, that won. And then there was Master Robert, winner in 1924, who used to pull...
...Alfred Emanuel Smith was conferred last Sunday the University of Notre Dame's Laetare medal, highest U. S. distinction available for lay Catholics. Said the Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, of Notre Dame: "The long and honorable public career of Ex-Governor Smith, as well as the fine example of his private family life, are known and admired by the entire American people. These public and private virtues are inseparable from the man's sterling Catholicity." The formal reason for the award was Mr. Smith's having achieved "such discinction in his field of special endeavor...
...find that it would not fit on the hatrack back home. It is an exceedingly interesting study of the blind arrogance of one of the War's own children in conflict with the equally blind forgetfulness of the world to which he returned. It just misses being a fine play. Its chances of success are greatly enhanced by the presence of Spencer Tracy as the hero, and Frank McHugh, whose characterization of a top-sergeant is one of the crack performances of the season. She Got What She Wanted. Evidently on the theory that if the triangle play...