Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over in the classroom we find that B. "Specs" Grinaker and "Jim-the-Face" Madison have a deep sense of appreciation for some of the finer antics put on for our benefit by prominent persons in the Business School. The net result of these characterizations hasn't been reported as yet but they are expected to have a great effect on the actors' marks--in other courses than Statistics, of course...
...Finer Points. A prime fund-raising virtue is discernment of the kind possessed by A.C.B.'s Almond: "Hollywood is a bad source for contributions. That's first-generation money; the people never had more than two pants to their name, and now that they've made the money themselves, the hard way, they want to hang onto it, or buy jewels...
...because Elwood, who on a stage could easily become incredible or dismaying, is played to perfection by veteran Vaudevillian Frank Fay (as is Elwood's harassed sister by Josephine Hull). Fay not only makes Elwood a fine fellow when he is riding high; he makes him an even finer one when, in a tricky scene where mood is everything, he quietly talks to a psychiatrist about himself and Harvey, and sometimes doesn't talk-only sits and stares...
...taken the Negro's part (sheriffs who have braved mobs to protect Negro prisoners, women who have leagued against lynching, trade-union organizers who have risked life & limb), the authors pay tribute. But Negroes, says Dr. Gordon B. Hancock, are bewildered by the number of sympathetic whites whose "finer feelings are obscured beneath a lack of moral courage ... a kind of 'Pontius Pilatism.'" The more cynical Negroes merely conclude that the saving grace of the white man is "his lack of unanimity in any program ... of oppression...
...TIME may have been be-fuzzed about de-fuzzers, but not about goofer feathers. Black-face comics Mclntyre & Heath did mention "goofus feathers" in their famous act, The Ham Tree, but TIME was talking about the Moran & Mack variety. A cultivated type, they are finer and softer than goofus feathers, which come from wild peaches...