Word: fines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already I am obligated by able assistance so graciously given by such fine folk as Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, Fannie Hurst, Frank O'Brien - Editor of New York Sun−Joseph and Elinor Pulitzer. All correspondence will be promptly answered if addressed to George FitzPatrick, Private Box 939 GG., G. P. O., Sydney, Australia...
...manner makes a difference at the White House. Several weeks ago a well-dressed young man walked briskly up the White House Steps, nodded amiably to the guards, pressed through the front door and strolled unchallenged into the dining room where President Hoover was alone. There he dropped his fine manner, began to talk rapidly, wildly. Realizing his danger before this stranger, the President conversed courteously with him, humored him, until a guard entered to lead the intruder away. A mighty shake-up occurred among the President's bodyguards...
President Hoover commended this voluntary action of the carriers as "a fine act of co-operation...
Professor E. B. Hill, '94, of the Music Department will be on sabbatical leave for the first half of 1929-30. Professor A. K. Porter, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, and W. C. Heilman, '00, Lecturer on Music, will each be absent on leave during the second half...
...universities have their own fine traditions and individuality. The very picture of the older buildings in Harvard Yard, of Connecticut Hall at Yale and of Nassau Hall here at Princeton have about them a charm and tradition that calls to mind almost poignantly the older America of Colonial days. These colleges were nurtured in a sturdy and rugged individualism and a sound scholarship that is the pride of these institutions. But I must confess that I have somewhat the feeling that I would if they were to substitute a Gothic tower for the Capitol dome when I see the Gothic...