Word: finer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state, trying to get Senator Bilbo's seat in Washington. That was no easy job. I lost the election -but it wasn't because I wasn't speaking in every little town in Mississippi." Says White today: "My health is perfect-couldn't be finer." Another governor, Colorado Democrat Ed Johnson, had a heart attack last September, has since resumed most of the duties of his office, while Texas' Democratic Senator Lyndon Johnson is again a man in motion after a severe coronary last July. Johnson has every expectation of returning to his post...
...engraving that the great transition figure of Albrecht Durer emerged. He is usually discussed as the father of the Northern Renaissance. But the beauty of this exhibit is the opportunity to see the Germanic elements in his art, as well as his foreign innovations. It is some of the finer examples of Durer's Renaissance. But the beauty of this style, is illustrated in the engravings are the Coat of Arms of the German...
...critics put aside their typewriters and brought out the violins. "For many years I have treasured the word 'great,' " the Daily News's John Chapman wrote. "This morning it belongs to Miss Harris." The Post's Richard Watts declared that he had "never seen a finer portrayal of Joan," and Walter Kerr of the Trib pronounced her "fiercely, wonderfully believable" in her "dazzling honesty." The Times's Brooks Atkinson called her a "fiery particle" and Joan "her finest, most touching performance...
...Second violins, make a diminuendo ..." The music starts again, and "Right!" shouts the old gentleman vehemently, making the listener jump in his seat. To the horns: "Gentlemen, you should be more accompanying . . . Don't match [the violins]. Keep a little below, you know." Again, sadly: "This could be finer," or "I am not happy with this C sharp." In a spirit of experimentation: "Tell you what we'll do: three notes on one bow-throm, bom, bom . . . Ah, the bowing is much better...
Felix's education began some early day in the perpetual childhood that was to be his life. It was then that he delighted to muse to himself, "I (can) not conceal from myself that I am made of superior stuff or, as people say, of finer clay." From this time on his life consisted of varying attempts to prove and demonstrate this thesis. His education consisted in learning new techniques for these attempts...