Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Congress for "prohibition educational" purposes is to be spent on posters, leaflets and cartoons to persuade the public in favor of law enforcement. Dry organizations were invited to help choose the poster designs. ¶ The first few days of operation of the Jones Act ($10,000-fine-and-five-years-in-jail law) brought out the following observations : That although it makes manufacture, transportation and sale, however trivial, a felony, it imposes no new penalty for illegal possession of liquor, an omission which may be welcome to many. That the new law is in the nature of "protection...
...critical reader will often discover in particulars of fact or of interpretation occasion for doubt or dissent." Bertrand Russell in his review of the book in the New York Nation for January 23 of this year, has drawn up a list of such errors with undue irony, and with fine disregard of the central idea of the discussion, which after all is not essentially invalidated by the author's unhistorical disposal of the head of Francis Bacon...
...keenest interest? What authors, what subjects? Undoubtedly, as is evidenced by the recent exhibition of the John Barnard Associates, held in the Treasure Room, there is a real and very satisfying interest in the well-printed book, in typography. There are two causes for this. One is the very fine work some of our modern presses are doing, but the prime cause can be traced directly to Professor Winship's influence, his love for the work, his energy, and his never-failing courtesy in answering questions and displaying the treasures the University has placed in his care...
...important causes for this impending collapse of our civilization is the demoralizing effect of the American motion picture upon the minds of the people of the world. Directors seem to want not only to please the public, but to educate them to the cheap things. We have reached a fine state of affairs indeed, when a bunch of ignorant movie directors try to improve upon the works of the world's greatest writers and as a result drag their masterpieces down to the level of cheap comedy. Look what they did when they put my father's famous books. "Anna...
...none other than the celebrated and vibrating purveyor of red and white heat, Gilda Gray. And for those who like their entertainment steaming Gilda is sure to satisfy. Among other things she gives an oriental dance which is very pleasing to the eye, and she is backed by a fine chorus...