Word: fining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curbstone coming-out party attracted a lot of people, though F.D.R.'s eldest (41) son might well have preferred a fine public dinner, full of resounding endorsements from Democratic bigwigs. Unfortunately, most old-line California Democrats regard Jimmy as something of a Typhoid Mary. Among their kindlier criticisms they accused him of being a carpetbagger-a point which he met in his broadcast with a time-honored political cliche: "I congratulate those of you who, like my sons and daughter, had the foresight to be born here. The rest of us, three out of every five Californians, have...
After 90 years, Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. had ample reason to be proud of itself. Named for Marcus Whitman, the missionary pioneer of Oregon Territory days, it had a fine old campus of broad lawns and red brick buildings, a small but earnest student body (770), high scholastic standing and a sprinkling of noted alumni (among them: U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas). Whitman took all that for granted. What it was after last week was a football team that could win games in its own league...
...budget their ill-gotten hoard as if they had slaved for it. Working on the notion that bank robbers are a likable lot among themselves and get the same pleasure out of their work as any other skilled craftsmen, Director Ray and Scriptwriter Charles Schnee have served up some fine, entertaining scenes. Their best characters: Howard Da Silva as a one-eyed lush who is outraged over the skimpy newspaper coverage of his bank robberies, and Jay C. Flippen as a hardened robber who has to work overtime to support a sister-in-law and buy his brother...
Author Vittorini, who was a Fascist in his youth, wrote In Sicily in 1937, when he was in the process of becoming a Communist. That may explain the midsection rhetoric. Only a fine natural gift explains the rest-and the best-of his story...
...happy to report that last Tuesday's concert left the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra with no occasion for apology. Immeasurably improved over last year, the Orchestra gave a performance which was fine in every detail, and at times approached professional quality...