Word: fines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more noble, orderly, and determined men I never saw. . . . Placards were publicly stuck up by well known persons, setting a price on the HEADS of the QUEEN, the COMTE D'ARTOIS, the POLIGNACS, and others. The guard, horse and foot, of Paris (the horse are a fine body), all joined us in the evening.... All the houses put out lights to prevent surprize, and the Citizens not on duty slept as tranquilly as in the most profound peace. Wonder at what I have seen stops me every instant in giving you the account...
Last week the young man and his sweetheart accepted congratulations from their friends: they were engaged to be married. Everyone remarked on what a fine couple they made, though some thought that, for a man, the fiance's ears were a trifle small and delicate...
What Louis XIII could not foretell was that Louis XIV (Louis Hayward) would grow up into an arrogant wastrel, his brother Philippe of Gascony (Louis Hayward) into a fine broth of a boy, next to his tutor d'Artagnan the best blade in France. Brother Louis at first finds Brother Philippe useful as a decoy for assassins and as a stand-in with his betrothed, the Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa (Joan Bennett), while he is dallying with brassy little Louise de la Vallière (Marian Martin...
Proud of the Sonovox, he does not regard it as a main-line achievement. Said he: "I'm a writer by trade. If I haven't got a writing job, fine-I'll fool around with this thing. But it's writing I want...
They had got along fine until last sum mer when Oscar Cintas finally blew up over what he regarded as a failure by Car & Foundry to go after Latin American business. He resigned as director and president of the company's Argentine, Brazilian and Cuban equipment subsidiaries. Last month, three weeks before A. C. F. reported a $1,662,692 deficit for the fiscal year, Oscar Cintas, from his ritzy suite in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton, sent a bitter letter to stockholders charging that Car & Foundry's directors were on record for only minuscule blocks of stock...