Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lectures number eight and nine in the program which began last month will both be delivered in English to enable non-multi-lingual students to grapple with the finer points of the renowned Spanish romance. Both speeches will begin at 8 o'clock...
John Roosevelt's little-publicized wife, Anne, a honey-blonde, turned up in her evening clothes in a vanishing-cream ad, testifying: "Before I go out-always a 1-Minute Mask . . . my skin looks finer-textured-it looks clearer. And it feels wonderful! Smoother all over...
Today the booters get a taste of a modernized coaching plan. Instead of running through plays and scrimmages this afternoon the team will watch movies of several British professional soccer games as MacDonald figures they may absorb some of the finer points of the game while resting the day before a game...
...this is Benchley's story and things have changed since then--he tried desperately to besmirch his unsullied life in such dens of vice as Broadway, Hollywood, and Paris. According to his report he remained disgustingly pure. But one wonders. Benchley could hardly have acquired his knowledge of the finer points of life by reading "Colliers" over an ice cream soda at the Y.M.C.A...
...tiny, clapboard opera theater at Tanglewood, Idomeneo was a joy to hear. Wrote the New York Times's Critic Noel Straus: "For its astounding choral writing alone, Idomeneo would be worthy of frequent hearings. No two of the choruses are alike. . . . Never was Mozart to write a finer operatic ensemble than the great quartet in this opera...