Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after you published your story anent Hal Kemp's Brunswick recording of the famous Hungarian suicide song, Gloomy Sunday, a letter from the composer was received by his good friend and former Budapest studio-mate, Karoly Nyaray, now of New York City. I met Nyaray, who possesses a fine tenor voice, alter I heard him sing Szomorú Vasárnap on Columbia's Hungarian record of Gloomy Sunday. He showed me the letter and translated it for me. ... I am quoting...
After two years at Yale's School of Fine Arts, Harry McGuire was called home to Denver, made editor of Outdoor Life, potent sporting magazine which his father had founded in 1898. Editor McGuire took seriously his job of running a publication, increased circulation to 139,603, made $50,000 in good years. In line of duty he formed a Bear Protection Society, went deep-sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico with the president of the University of Minnesota and, while intoxicated in Mexico, shot the sixth largest antelope ever bagged...
Appropriately housed in the bright Bignou Gallery high over the Rolls-Royce showroom on Manhattan's 57th Street, there opened last week the world's first public exhibition of the first tapestries ever woven from cartoons of famed modern artists. Agog at the novelty of seeing in fine-textured silk and wool original examples of what France's onetime Premier Edouard Herriot called in his catalog introduction "the whimsical fantasy of a Dufy, the 'color researches' of a Matisse, the free inspiration of a Picasso, the often satirical gravity of a Rouault," ecstatic esthetes gurgled...
...fatal raid against the Azores, Ralegh was recalled at the last minute. But Ralegh lost Elizabeth's favor for good when she discovered his secret marriage. She sent the tactless pair to the Tower, then banished them to the country in disgrace. Although he paid a gigantic fine Ralegh was not allowed at court for five years. From that time on, his schemes went wrong. His expeditions to Guiana brought back little but tall tales. His part in the raid on Cadiz was creditable but he got less than his share of prize money...
...high-flown language of the day, the purpose of the book is set forth in the title pages: that "young gentlemen may read many pleasant fancies and fine devices, and thereon meditate divers sweet conceits to court the love of fair ladies and gentlewomen...