Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Returning belatedly from the Coronation of George VI, James Watson Gerard, Wartime U. S. Ambassador to Germany, commented, ''The Americans who wore knee breeches at the ceremony showed a fine set of legs. There wasn't a knocking knee or bandy leg in the whole outfit...
...most of the year Central City is a scraggly little Colorado mining town (pop. 572) asleep in the memory of an ancient glamor. But for two or three weeks in the summer it is crowded with well-dressed visitors, most of them having a fine time and many of them tipsy. Last week the town was crowded and the focus of festivity was the Central City Opera House...
...says, "The general idea was that I didn't eat regularly." During the War he got a job painting camouflage in the shipyards at Newport News, Va. For the last ten years he has lived quietly at Weston, Conn., seen his son Charles through the Yale School of Fine Arts. Both he and Kansas' eminent John Steuart Curry, who worked with him on some murals for the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial in 1926, can remember with amusement that Daugherty told Curry he ought to learn how to draw...
...Davis, 61-year-old brother of Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis and Paul Davis, is the commission's most colorful member. Rated a thoroughgoing liberal, he grows apoplectic when anyone insinuates that his decisions might be swayed by the financial connections of his rich brother Paul. A fine speaker, he set a House record when he was a Tennessee Congressman (1919-33), having been allowed to keep the floor for four hours. although the rules impose a one-hour limit. Previously he set another record as a Federal Circuit judge, hearing 12,000 cases in eight years...
...fine Iowa morning last week a country doctor saw a strange thing in the sky. It looked like two clusters of white grapes, floating along with the wind, with something resembling a bathtub, a coffin or a sweatbox dangling below. The doctor was on a confinement case so he did not stop to gawp...