Word: finer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...author not only of America's first permanent wave but also of love in the bosom of her brother's West Point classmate, Cadet Trumbull. The Civil War interrupts their incipient idyll. Cadet Trumbull is a Northerner, the Frietchies being, it will be remembered, one of the finer families of slaveholding Frederick, Md. When the times comes for Barbara to say the historic "Shoot if you must this old grey head," her youth and the presence of Trumbull, now a badly wounded Union captain, suggest to her the variation: "Shoot and I'll thank...
...women of the land that poise and stability of character, that combination of learning and good manners, which is a mark of the noblest American womanhood." Farmington, whose course is indefi- nite in length and character, has a reputation for distinction of dress and deportment. It caters to "the finer families." Its product is rather the perfect lady than the trained mind. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Porter Keep are in charge...
Than Alexa Stirling there is no finer mistress of golfing style in this country. Glenna, masculine of wrist, short of swing, comes next. Edith's game, while steady and dependable, is more loosely constructed than theirs, but she makes up the difference in temperament. Like brother Dexter, the intercollegiate champion, she is bursting with boyish energy and spirit. Her interests are not confined to golf alone...
Repairing to Italy, Representative Everett visited Venice, city of gondolas. There?who knows whether by good or evil chance??a whisperer leaned to the legislator's ear, murmuring: "Visit Passagno. There you will find a much finer statue of Washington than the one which you seek...
...making the shaft, against which the figure stands, into a lighthouse which will throw its signal light far over the Tyrrhenian sea, whose treacherous waters were the poet's grave. The site is not precisely the part of the shore where his body was found, but a much finer one, a mile or so north, where the rugged marble mountains of Carrara furnish a lofty, solemn background. The sculptor, Fontana, has already achieved distinction in works of impressive size-notably in the Garibaldi at Sarzana, and the newly erected Quadriga at Rome. Said Fontana: "We, too, claim some share...