Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Please do not allow your fine people to believe that we are all like that...
...wear her tiara, did not use her gold plates, filled her table at $7.50 a head. The first Presidential birthday ball (1934) netted $1,015,000. The second (1935) netted $1,071,000. The third last week was expected to net anywhere up to $1,500,000. In fine fettle therefore was the President when he broke off his party with the Cuff-Links Gang, went to his microphone and thanked his 5,000,000 birthday guests, promising them that 70% of their contributions would be spent combatting infantile paralysis in their own communities, 30% sent to Warm Springs Foundation...
...longer is an honor to go to the United States Senate. ... It is composed of an aggregation of the cheapest politicians who have neither courage nor honesty." Of her selection to be the third woman Senator in U. S. history,* the new Lady from Louisiana remarked: "That's fine. That's very fine." On the rare occasions when newshawks sought out Mrs. Long during her hus band's turbulent lifetime, she liked to say that she was "just a nice Irish girl named Rose McConnell" when the future Kingfish met & married her. Born on a farm near...
...mankiller. Rounding a tunnel curve one day, the creature slewed around, reared, raised its hoofs, prepared to bash Lewis against the mine wall. Young John had just enough time to spike Pete between the eyes with the point of the sprag of his coal car. To avoid imminent fine and dismissal, the young mine worker rubbed clay over the prostrate Pete's fatal wound, explained to the foreman that the animal had just dropped dead of natural causes...
...convicted fortnight ago of criminal negligence in the burning of the T. E. L. Mono Castle, the defendants last week received the following sentences: Acting Captain William F. Warms, two years in jail; Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, four years in jail; New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co., a fine of $10,000; its executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud, a fine of $5,000, a suspended sentence of a year in jail...