Word: fining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your World War section is fine! How about an article pointing out what an equitable solution to the European situation would be-given an Allied victory? How to prevent a World War III? It stumps...
...traditional bits of advice worth passing on, if only for the sake of the record. Avoid blind dates at Radcliffe and that hideous building on Mt. Auburn St.; ignore resolutely the vultures outside Memorial Hall (except, of course, those offering the Crimson); and learn to sneer with fine Bostonian indifference when you meet the people who can always tell a Harvard man, etc., and who, convulsed, offer the simile: "As aloof as those men about to enter Harvard...
...traveled under, Comrade Browder declined to answer on the ground that doing so might tend to incriminate him. Well might he be cautious. Day before, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had warned that all travelers on fake passports would be prosecuted if apprehended (possible penalty: $2,000 fine and five years in jail...
...lucky as to have automobiles. A trainload of war-wounded, had to wait hours every few miles while its crew repaired blown up rails. The diplomatic exodus came to rest at Sniatyn, a town near the Rumanian border where there were boarding school dormitories. Ambassador Biddle got a fine "mansion" on the main street. There were no lights, of course, and no running water, but his wife and family were safe. His British neighbors across the way marveled to see him sweating, stripping to his undershirt, as he loaded baggage into his official car, which was taking his girl clerks...
Illinois's new resident artist boasts: "I never had any training in the fine arts or painting, thank goodness!" A member of the Sanity in Art Group, which considers "modernist" a synonym for "lousy," Artist Nichols is belligerent in refusing to "pick out the ugly things-strikes, droughts, ugly alleys and paint them." Subjects he prefers are the prairie landscapes of his youth, usually snowed under. These famed smooth snow effects Artist Nichols gets by laying on his oils in a thin film with watercolor brushes...