Word: finer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still in its first season, The Charles St. Theater is proving itself one of the finest off-Broadway playhouses--finer than a great many of the increasingly slick off-Broadway theaters in New York...
...common knowledge that when anything of a finer nature, or loftier thoughts, is presented to a small-souled person it is met with hostility and contempt. Your Dec. 30 reviewer of Candles in the Sun is no exception. He can no more understand theosophy, the works of Annie Besant and Krishnamurti, than a primitive man could understand Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays. As for the author of the book, the less said about her the better...
...must congratulate TIME, Oct. 14, on "A Masterpiece Come Home." It is refreshing to read such articles about the finer things of life; and the triptych of the famed Cracow Altar by Wit Stwosz, or Veit Stoss if you prefer, is certainly one of the finest. The beautiful illustration that accompanied the article clearly proves this. However the article refers to the sculptor as a German while Stoss was definitely a Pole...
...have a house of my own - everything! Even a thermometer!" He smiles tolerantly. Suddenly she begins to cry. "But when I tell them about all this," she sobs, "who's going to believe me!" He grandly scribbles a testimonial, and signs it. Somehow, after her taste of the finer things, life on the streets does not seem the same to the little whore. Nameless yearnings assail her. One day she joins a procession to a shrine of the Virgin. She falls to her knees and groans: "Holy Mother, help me to change my life...
...Ford. I must take exception, however, to one statement: you say "the only one who had an ulcer on the Ford show was the producer, and he brought that over from the Gobel show." I have never had the pleasure of working with two finer men than both George Gobel and Ernie Ford, and I like to feel that my ulcer is an occupational disease not derived from either show...