Word: fines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playwright Patrick Hamilton denies that he was influenced by the history of Leopold and Loeb, acknowledges a debt to Thomas De Quincey's essay "Murder as a Fine Art." The source is immaterial -this crescendo of fear depends on neither history nor scholarship. Mr. Hamilton, like Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, is an artist who makes diabolical fiction seem as real as sticks and stones...
...shores last week, the U. S. has none whatever. For he is a man who (one may presume) would not deny except in modesty that his brilliant conversation has charmed many beautiful women, that wine accelerates the human faculties, perhaps even that a game of chance may produce a fine exhilaration. He is representative of the British notion that the highroad to success, even in politics 'or business, is not paved entirely with the virtues that the parson preaches of Sundays-that, in fact, its finest pavings are the stones of genius...
France and the U. S. made their celluloid peace last week. Arbitrators were Under Secretary Andre Francois-Poncet of the Ministry of Fine Arts and Harold L. Smith of Will Hays's Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. To the chief of the French Cinema Trust (Chambre Syndicale), industrious, scheming Jean Sapene, the peace was as distasteful as a hurtling Hollywood pie-in-the-face...
Murdered. Frank Reed Whiteside, 33, treasurer of the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, landscapist; by unknowns, in Philadelphia. Neighbors heard him answer his door bell, heard a shot fired (through the heart), heard scuffling, fleeing feet. Apparent motive: robbery...
Friday, October 4--Comp. Literature 11, Economics 5, Economics 7b, Economics 11, English 2, English 32, English 52, Fine Arts 1a, Fine Arts 2b, French 2, French 9, German A, Military Science 2, Military Science...