Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finer Things. The cops wondered, at first, whether Alice would really use her .38. She settled that in 1927 when she surprised a 14-year-old boy stripping a car. When he tried to run away, she dropped him with a slug in the right thigh. In 1934, detailed to hunt purse-snatchers, she winged her second thief with one shot. A month later, she shot another thief...
...when she was walking her beat. Otherwise, Alice McCarthy's life had taken on a fairly sedate pattern in her middle age. She lived alone in a South Side apartment, went to the opera, studied French and Italian and went to Mass on Sundays. "I like all the finer things of life," she said...
...named Kay, and Dolores, who wore sables and "went around adjusting herself" (Dolores could "adjust herself in a thrice"). Jimmy peddled dope, knifed his sister, beat up his mother, hocked the family goods. But his mother loved him dearly, and his brother Ed, a priest, thought he had "a finer than average" spiritual nature...
...domestic wool at a fixed price. But Australia, which is much more efficient at sheep-raising and must sell wool or go bankrupt, sold to U.S. manufacturers at a lower price, in spite of the tariff wall. Combed U.S. wool was priced at $1.20; combed Australian, generally a finer grade, was sold at $1.09, which included 34? tariff. U.S. manufacturers bought Australian wool while U.S. wool piled up in Government warehouses. Last spring the warehouses were stuffed with more than a year and a half's supply...
...clock on the fields which played host to Jayvee and House footballers last fall, the booters, dressed for action, are practicing under the tutelage of Varsity Coach James MacDonald and Freshman mentor "Poley" Guyda. The coaches at present are working mainly on teaching the individual players the finer points of the game, but by next week they hope to start scrimmaging...