Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went directly to tailor shops and with great shears learned the artful intricacies of cutting out men's fashionable suits. Now, under the quota law, they come no more-or at least not in sufficient numbers to meet the demands of the purveyors of fine suitings. Young Americans cannot or will not serve as apprentice cutters. The ranks of experts grow thin. Wage demands go up. Hence the high cost of fashion...
...think there is a fine human touch in that act, and nothing has brought the Throne nearer to the troubles of the poor than this unprecedented act by perhaps the most popular man in the world...
That little sum, nonetheless, was a fine accolade to the oldest national free tuberculosis hospital in the U. S. Jews built it in 1890 when their co-religionists emigrated in waves from their Polish villages to contract consumption in Manhattan's crowded slums. Now the hospital, supported mainly by Jews, has non-Jews on its staff and among its patients...
Last week a leading architect, Edwin Bergstrom of Los Angeles, not only scolded his fellows for their wastefulness of income but scoffed at highfaluting notions. Said he: "Architecture is not a true profession in the sense that the other fine arts are professions. The musician, painter, and the sculptor create with their own hands their finished art, but the architect would make a sorry show if he should build his dreams. Of all professions, he alone must depend upon others to give form and substance...
...Chuckled as the Lady Astor, patrician Virginia-born British M. P., silenced a feminine opponent on the floor of the House with the fine old Southern expletive, "Oh, rats...