Word: finer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evades the jailers but cannot dodge himself; in the final scene he gives himself up to the pursuers to prevent a clergyman from shielding him by telling a lie. He has been at various times in the piece a murderer, a thief, a beggar, but throughout a gentleman. His finer nature traps...
...possible that the hue and cry of the last two years which has placed football in the position of the evil genius of American colleges will make way for a finer appreciation of the game itself. Perhaps now sport for its own sake will be more than a phrase. If such is the case, if the game resumes its proper status--a national pastime and nothing more than a pastime--the battle will not have been in vain...
...leader of the Seiyukai party, and amid the national financial crisis of last spring he became Premier (TIME, May 2). All his life Baron Tanaka has had the honorable reputation of being a good fellow. His powerful constitution seems to make only a favorable reaction to quantities of the finer alcoholic beverages; and he is considered one of the most gentlemanly frequenters of geisha houses in Japan...
Eager RUSTLE OF SPRING- Clare Cameron-Doran ($2). When Clare Cameron was a little girl she lived, like her contemporary, Author Thomas Burke, in the slums of London. Her parents were stodgy, honest, bourgeois, with numerous aunts and cousins. Clare grew up with a longing for "finer things." This document of her callow years is marred by an overdose of sentimental estheticism and a dismaying lack of humor. She seems a little too sure that she was an unusual little girl. When, in school, "we were given the choice of three subjects for com position: 'The Autobiography...
...human beings." It is a time not far distant, according to Author Wiggam, when the two hormones which control female reproductive organs will be harnessed, put into pills, sold at corner drug stores. Thus will parents be able to determine the nature and the number of their offspring. A finer race will be bred. Evolution will become "peaceful, happy, benign...