Word: fining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daventry 75 miles from London the Government-controlled British Broadcasting Corp. went into action early this week with a fine sputter of pro-British Arabic. Guest star on the opening program was none other than Seif-ul-Islam Al-Hussein, the son of the Imam of Yemen...
...king is dead. Long live the king. Mr. Sutherland was a fine judge, a fine judge. Now he can retire to a farm somewhere to reappear at intervals in the rotogravure. For we're going to have a new judge, goody-goody, and I wonder who it will...
...years to come, if the movie has not been extinguished by television, critics of the fine arts may wonder at what point the motion picture ceased to be mere superficial entertainment and became recognized, in addition, as the new art form. If they concede that it is art, they can easily be deceived into believing that Hollywood producers first regarded it as such when they billed a film at reserved prices. Today that practice is being abused regularly, so that every fifth production is dressed out as great and sold to the public at $2.20 a seat...
Morcover, many great movies have never been viewed by a majority of the people. American audiences, especially, miss the French masterpieces--films which have been created more out of ingenuity and persistence than by cataclysmic expenditure of money and words; they miss, too, the fine German psychological and impressionistic attempts. With considerate farsightedness the New York Museum of Modern Art has gathered together into what is perhaps the first film library all the old jewels from Sarah Bernhardt's "Queen Elizabeth" to Mickey Mouse. Here last year was formed the Harvard Film Society, which presented a survey of the development...
...facetious sociologists and naive maiden aunts, who are cruelly solicitous for the health of his molars as well as the cyst beneath his right shoulder blade. These two, who conceal their despotism under a jacket of social charm and kindness (so that all but himself considers them as unusually fine specimens of humanity), ruffled their feathers in immediate response to the Vagabond's scheme of adventure. No, they said in one grave and discreet voice, it would be too dangerous; he might even be killed. No, it would not do; look at the ice, at the Highway Department--which...