Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lover. In portraits there was the sensitive picture of the artist's young brother, Achille, as a gold-laced aspirant in the French Navy. In sporting pictures there was the vividly painted False Start lent by John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. For print collectors there was the fine etching of Degas friend and pupil, Mary Cassatt in the Louvre. For balletomanes there were half a dozen pastel studies of the saucy, bandy-legged little dancing girls on which Degas fame chiefly rests...
Oxford has also its girls: "Brains on wheels," as some Oxonians refer to them. But this is hardly fair. The girls of Oxford have really much more than brains and a bicycle: There's always their hockey. And I for one have seen some mighty fine and enthusiastic players. It is true that some seem to find some sort of carry-over from hockey to the dance floor; but a man with a little coaching in following can get on tolerably well and the girl never knows the difference. If that doesn't work I find a definite understanding...
...entertain girls in their rooms from one in the afternoon until nine or nine-fifteen at night. Of course girls may not bring in their bicycles. And then again it is just as well guests must leave before nine-fifteen because students going after that time must pay a fine. Otherwise a man's room is his castle and, in all seriousness, many invaluable teas and conversations are encouraged this way. The girl's chief worry seems to be that someone will take her wheel for there's a definite communism of bicycles here at Oxford...
...last few minutes of this afternoon will see hectic photographers streaming to the Fine Arts Guild with dripping prints for the judges. The fifty early entrants whose work has already come in, are thirty on the whole, as well as beforehand. Not even the most arrant egoist felt sure enough of winning a "large cash prize" to pay for more than three over the normal quota. Or perhaps six prints is all a photographer can bear to show at once...
...Boston Symphony is giving concerts in New York this week-end and Symphony Hall will be empty until Sunday afternoon when the very fine Polish pianist, Jan Smeterlin, is to give a Chopin recital. Mr. Smeterlin is probably the foremost living exponent of Chopin's works and his recitals are always marked by the best musical taste as well as by complete technical competence. His program includes the popular Fantasie Opus 49 and Sonata Opus 35 in B flat minor...