Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine thing it is to have a patient wife, four bright-eyed children and $26,000 worth of stock in the bank. But rare is the man who has attained that state on a salary of only $43 a week. One such is kindly-faced, near-sighted Gus Anderson, who charges batteries for the electric trucks of Pilgrim Laundry, Inc. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Gus began his work 25 years ago for $25 a week and today, in his overalls and heavy shoes, he looks as though he didn't have a spare dime. But he is typical...
...this outgrowth of the French Ethnographical Institute is rich in Zapotecan sculpture, Ooxocan ware and feather-mosaics from Mexico, particularly rejoices in several treasures: 1) the tallest (55-foot) British Columbian totem pole in captivity; 2) the world's finest bison-hide North American Indian paintings; 3) a fine, puma-headed statue from Bolivia, recently rescued from the Government Geology Laboratory, where it had reposed for 80 years as an interesting "sample of stone (undetermined...
...story out of "Submarine Patrol," celluloid epic of the U-boat chasing "splinter fleet." If you can sink back into plush upholstery, forgetting the tremendous bellows of Hollywood publicity that are building up Nancy Kelly into stardom and the sweet simplicity of sturdy Richard Greene, you may enjoy the fine technical effects (especially the fog) of this bloodless movie. The film's makers have had to go afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood now, and have substituted a branch of the Navy as the real hero. So they escape some...
...Great Man Votes" tells what happens to all good Harvard graduates who drink too much, and as such is a fine object lesson. It is also a very good picture in its own right. Although scornful of the ordinary limits of credulity, its whimsy and human interest combine to make a pleasant, more is at the top of his form, but is closely press-oftentimes moving, comedy. Actor John Barryed by two child performers. They are Virginia Weidler and Peter Holden, Broadway's infant who speaks with the wisdom and dignity of the ages...
...these terms. Whatever its effect on individuals, the play tells the story of Lennie, a monstrous halfwit, who absent-mindedly crushes the life out of small rodents because he likes to feel their fur; before the final act has run its macabre course, Lennie has so perfected the fine art of strong arm caressing that he smothers the boss's daughter in a pile...