Word: fines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charley Gray, like so many others of Mr. Marquand's fine, upstanding young men, is nevertheless a pretty cold fish. He does the right thing at the right time, has perfect control over his emotions, and never makes mistakes; one gets the impression that while he may feel himself caught in the rat-race of modern business society it is for him the most suitable of all possible ruts...
Both pictures are notable for fine acting performances. Jane Wyman, as a deaf-mute in a rugged seacoast town, has already received a garden of critical orchids. Walter Houston, as the old prospector leading two hot young bloods to a fortune in gold, creates a wonderful character who dances at the sight of gold dust...
Died. Crosby Gaige, 66, witty bibliophile and gourmet who found time to indulge in his hobby of printing fine limited editions (Joyce, O'Flaherty, Conrad) and writing books (Crosby Gaige' s Cocktail Guide and Ladies' Companion, Footlights and Highlights) in addition to co-producing such Broadway hits as Within the Law (starring Jane Cowl, 1912), Smilin' Through (1919) and Coquette (starring Helen Hayes, 1927); of a heart ailment; in Peekskill...
...true democracy," Eliot asserts stoutly, "can maintain itself unless it contains these different levels . . . Complete equality means universal irresponsibility . . . oppressive for the conscientious and licentious for the rest." Mass education looks fine on paper, but in practice it only means "half-education," and encourages the half-baked notion "that superiority is always superiority of intellect." In Eliot's Victorian view of things, the true superiority is the superiority of any class passing on its culture for generation after generation...
...Deposit Only. In Denmark, Wis., Bank President George de Broux, whose bank had been held up, insisted that his burglar-alarm system worked fine; the only trouble was that the guard's rifle ammunition was locked in a safe...