Word: fines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retreat. He detailed the contributions to its construction: 1) from Virginia, roads to the camp; 2) from the Marine Corps, "Labor in erecting cabins and tents, in providing water supply, cutting brush;" 3 ) from the telephone and electric light companies, "connections without charge;" 4) from local residents, "labor on fine trails;" 5) from the U. S. Army engineers, road work "as one of its summer exercises:" ]6) from himself, 164 acres of land, "the purchase of building materials, etc. . . . some labor costs...
...dialog but its fiddles playing Magyar melodies are well recorded. Manufactured for the U. S. box office and released through Paramount, it tells about a middle-class girl who sacrifices herself for an impoverished and roguish nobleman because she respects his class. Stock characters of continental drama photographed with fine craftsmanship against their native background seem no more credible than in Hollywood pictures where this background has been artificially reproduced...
...much blood. It was then explained by Chang Tsung-chang that the police had not quite understood what he had told them about the pistol. Not he but his secretary had been handling it. The secretary swore that this was true. A dozen of Chang's concubines confirmed the fine new story. Policemen scratched their heads. Finally, officials indicted Chang for murder, suspecting him of having suspected the Prince of fiddling about in his harem...
...leap from a window; in Paris he dragged her around by the hair; in Berlin he banged her head against a door until the hinges broke; in Los Angeles he slammed her against a wall. After a settlement had been made outside court, Miss Lewis said, "He is a fine man and I love him. It seems that we cannot live together...
...which grow its romantic, typically cinematic situations is also the basis of a moment of drama. Greta Garbo has had a love-affair with her chauffeur who committed suicide because he was afraid of spoiling her life. Then she runs away with a painter and has a fine time sailing around on his yacht in warm weather until she finds out that he has tired of her. The moment when she is trying to understand that this has happened is what makes you remember the picture. She goes down to her cabin and stands in front of the wash basin...