Word: finer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Short of the big ones-Cabinet jobs, ambassadorships, Supreme Court seats-the President of the U.S. has no finer guerdons to bestow than those $15,000-a-year salaries that go with federal judgeships and top federal jobs. Harry Truman has often bestowed this largess as such-to cheer a personal friend, to assuage the hurt of a defeated candidate, to grant a political boon. Last week the U.S. Senate, which is also politically minded, brusquely brought it to Harry Truman's attention that such appointments are made only "with the advice and consent of the Senate...
Investigations into illegal gambling in the U.S. tend to be as stylized as burlesque shows. But some are more entertaining than others; there have been few finer examples of the phenomenon than the Senate hearings on Florida crime, conducted in Miami last week by Tennessee's agile Senator Estes Kefauver. The Senator and his investigators managed to half unveil such titillating glimpses of skulduggery and to inspire such righteously innocent denials that even hardened Miamians seemed fascinated...
...Chicago last week, a neighborhood cinemansion called the 400 Theater took ads announcing a new policy with revolutionary implications: "Exclusive Showings of Finer Films with a Special Appeal to the Discriminating (N.P.)." A footnote explained the initials: "No Popcorn...
...even seeped into the British army, Graves avers; but since Britons do their best with their backs to the wall, a few drill sergeants here and there are fighting a magnificent rearguard action. When "positive swearing" fails to impress their rookies, these dauntless bulldogs fall back on the finer, far-more-difficult art of "negative swearing," i.e., not swearing at all. This art is shown in its finest flower by the following little story, told by a desperate physical instructor to his squad...