Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have, in the memorial chapel about to be. The new chapel, it is averred, will not honor in its halls the Harvard War dead who were so unfortunate as to perish on the Teuton side. The Sargent murals are in keeping with this spirit ... not with that of the finer, older and far more useful library...
...have made a footfall seem loud. At length "the class of 1744" was called; a feeble old man stepped forth, and passed along the aisle alone. A reaction was experienced, and a burst of animated cheers followed his tottering foot-steps. It was a grand moment. I know nothing finer in the poetry of life...
...hours before serving, placed in the dining room, and allowed gradually to assume its temperature. Absolutely ruinous to the bouquet of any wine, according to Mr. Reeves-Smith, is the awful vandalism of "taking the chill off" by setting the dacanter in hot water. A simple brandy of the finer sort is today the only liqueur taken by smart males and connoisseurs, in the experience of the Director General. But smart women go in for everything from Creme de Menthe, Chartreuse...
Sued for Annulment. Donna Madelyn Nichols Taylor Garibaldi, by General Giuseppe Garibaldi of Stamford, Conn., civil engineer, antiFascist, grandson of the famed Italian liberator; in Nyack, N. Y. Said she: "The General seeks to annul our marriage . . . it is a much finer thing . . . than the business of an ugly New York divorce." Donna Madelyn divorced her first husband in Yucatan...
...Catholic rank and file, in spite of this metallic voice pounding in the wilderness of South Dakota-yes, the Catholic laity do want parochial schools for their boys and girls. They are eager to have their children trained in religion which makes for morality and turns us out finer citizens and gives parents better results from their offspring. The parochial school is doing what the parent may not have time to do himself in this sad workaday age of ours. The fact that laymen are perfectly willing to pay taxes for our public schools and then support at the same...