Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening course on the analysis and appreciation of fine music, for adults who have no special technical knowledge of music, will be given Tuesday evenings throughout the fall and winter by Professor John P. Marshall, of Boston University, beginning tonight at 5 o'clock at Boston University...
...Cincinnati, directly under Churchman McNicholas' archiepiscopal nose, Father Coughlin turned up to address a mass meeting of his National Union for Social Justice. In fine oratorical fettle he intemperately roared: "When any upstart dictator in the U. S. succeeds in making this a one party form of government, when the ballot is useless, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets. . . . Mr. Roosevelt is a radical. The Bible commands 'increase and multiply,' but Mr. Roosevelt says to destroy and devastate. Therefore I call him anti-God and radical...
Back in Switzerland in 1528 he swanked it about Basle in furs and velvets, bought a fine house for his wife and family, then returned to England in 1530. As far as is known it was the Tudor tycoon Thomas Cromwell (whose portrait by Holbein now hangs in Manhattan's Frick Gallery) who first introduced this skillful German to bluff King Hal. Henry took to Holbein immediately, made him his court painter in 1537, trusted him sufficiently to send him to Duren in 1539 to paint a reportorial portrait of Anne of Cleves whom Henry was thinking of making...
...Petersburg, he became so vociferous a critic of the efficiency of the U. S. Navy that in 1908 his friend Roosevelt I had to save him from court martial. During the War he commanded 373 ships, 81,000 men. Said he two years ago: "The sea is fine when viewed from shore . . . but I never liked going...
...Douglas entered the field of fiction by "sheer accident in 1929, after having written sermons and essays for 25 years. His first three novels, Green Light (1934), Forgive Us Our Trespasses (1932), Magnificent Obsession (1929), sold more than 340,000 copies. Similar to those works in its fine moral tone, its unabashed sentimentality, and the neat working out of a plot which brings all characters to happy conclusions, White Banners also carries a plea for forgiveness and unquestioning self-sacrifice in the face of the multitudinous tribulations of modern life, and dramatizes the message that patience, courage and service...