Word: fining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Association of Manufacturers had promised Mr. Eden $5,000 and expenses to address its Congress of American Industry (see p. 47), and he was in fine fettle when he arrived in Manhattan.* With him was his blue-eyed, brunette wife. In his party also was Ronald Tree, M.P., who served him as coach, buffer and expert on U. S. psychology. Ronald Tree is the Chicago-born grandson of Marshall Field. Thus guided, Anthony Eden endeared himself to street crowds, got along well with reporters. At the start of his speech at the Waldorf-Astoria, he said: ". . . This visit...
...Burns (sidekick of Gracie Allen) for smuggling $4,885 worth of diamond bracelets and a ring. To make matters worse, jolly George Burns admitted making payments to Chaperau, pleaded guilty to nine counts, laid himself open to a maximum sentence of 18 years in prison and a $45,000 fine...
...Eskimos, those scientifically invaluable little people, have long been pointed to as having fine teeth simply because they shunned the mushy diet of our milk-toast civilization. Last week Columbia University Bacteriologist Theodor Rosebury, who has been to Alaska himself, disputed this standard theory of dental decay. According to his investigations, reported at a medico-dental session of the Greater New York Dental Meeting, previous theorists had been drawing the wrong conclusions from Eskimos...
...fine spring-fever day in 1929 a high-keyed, hawk-nosed, 28-year-old publisher named George Macy paid a well-plotted call on a Wall Street broker named Jack O. (for nothing) Straus. Publisher Macy was in search of an angel. He outlined for Broker Straus a heavenly publishing scheme: limited editions. "Wait here for me," said Straus. A few minutes later he reappeared, handed Macy a fistful of checks. They were for $1,000 each. To fellow brokers downstairs on the floor of the Stock Exchange he had merely whispered the compelling cantrip of the bulls...
...most revealing thing that can be said about the fine books of 1929 is that in those brash days even Wall Street believed limited editions a good thing. Once only millionaires and professional bibliophiles collected first editions. By the late 20s, however, even plain readers were buying a few, just as they bought a few stocks. And even printers began publishing de luxe editions. Of the whole lot, only two de luxe publishers survived Depression I: George Macy's Limited Editions Club, and Eugene Virginius Connett Ill's Derrydale Press...