Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loudspeakers, the better to hear if not to see. There the President opened the campaign of 1936. After that one excursion the President returned to Warm Springs, the game of polio, his daily outings at the wheel of his car, the comings & goings of official visitors. There in his fine pine paneled living room he heard his radio tell the ghastly tale of how Army scored four touchdowns against Navy in 18 minutes. Thence he went forth to visit the Pine Valley Resettlement Project near his farm. There he began another speech, for delivery in Chicago to the Farmers...
Censorship may kill authentic news, but it is fine fertilizer for rumors. Harvesters of that exciting crop last week garnered the following stories from East Africa. ¶ Having already visited Harar, Ethiopian headquarters in the South, Emperor Haile Selassie motored last week to Dessye, main Ethiopian headquarters in the North, over a road especially repaired to make the journey possible. Dessye greeted the Emperor with arches of leaves, transparent banners, and a delegation of policemen imported from Addis Ababa to keep order. Red Cross signs, traditional marks of an Ethiopian brothel, were hastily taken from the numerous houses...
Josephine Tumminia proved to be the find of the San Francisco season. She was a slender graceful actress with a fine flair for comedy. She exhibited a natural coloratura voice so flexible and sure that critics forgave her the occasional tones which were metallic and edgy. Proud Father Salvatore Tumminia found that business picked up following his daughter's success. Two days after her début Tenor Schipa climbed into Barber Tumminia's chair, let him lather his face while pretty Daughter Josephine trilled...
That part of the Napoleonic quotation which the Times let by was: "When I need any one," he said, I don't make too fine a point about...
...Chicago's suburb Palos Park, Mrs. Florence Zeller gave her dead ring-tailed monkey, Monty, a $35 embalming, a white plush coffin and a fine funeral with four small children as pallbearers. To an assemblage of neighborhood children, two live monkeys, a bulldog and a cat, Mrs. Zeller's daughter-in-law read the 23rd Psalm. Absent was Mr. Zeller...