Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brain Trust: "A bunch of theoretical, intellectual, professional nincompoops from Columbia University." On the New Deal: "Spurious, sporadic, uncertain, unsound, unworkable, and unconstitutional." On the proposal to establish a Federal Fine Arts Commission: "I do not see how anybody can enjoy listening to the strains of Mendelssohn with the seat of his pants out." On President Roosevelt's promise that he did not want to become a dictator: "Assurances are not worth a continental when they come from men who care no more for their word than a tomcat cares for a marriage license in a back alley...
...first two weeks of French mobilization were featured by unholy traffic jams and messes. Aghast, however, was Paris last week to learn that, if war had come, a large, percentage of the capital's population would have lacked gas masks-a fine French scandal for which no culprit or scapegoat had been found up to this week. Meanwhile, energetic, square-jawed Radical Socialist Premier Edouard Daladier was greeted by the French Chamber of Deputies with a vote of confidence in what he did at Munich, 535-to-75-nearly all the dissenters being Communists...
...Czechoslovak-German-Italian commission set up at Munich was drawing the new Czecho-slovak-German frontier while German troops continued to enter and occupy the zones allotted them and Adolf Hitler darted in & out of his new Sudetenland, alternating Sudeten celebrations in his honor with business in Germany. A fine, heavy bouquet of thorny flowers hurled at the Führer by an "admirer" scratched his face...
...when he was 27, Maurice Prendergast had saved up $1.000. He arrived in Paris in May, lived for three years on his $1,000. Back in Boston he never lost a chance to go to Revere Beach or Marblehead, when the weather was fine, to paint ships, bathers, surf. His paintings are all blobby, brightly-pied patterns, in a more distinctly personal technique than was developed by most U. S. followers of the French Impressionists, who broke up sunlight into a mist of colors. By 1901, when he painted In Central Park (see cut), he stood high among...
Prosecution by the Government, however, was limited to minor charges under the old 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act. Last week, in Eastern District Court of Tennes see, Dr. Massengill pleaded guilty to mislabeling his preparation an elixir (technically the word elixir implies solution of a drug in accepted a fine...