Word: fining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of prospects and some dope about them, not all of it straight. He noted that Gretchen Fraser, Olympic ski champion, had a 6-oz. gold trophy worth $210, that Movie Star Ann Sothern collected white Meissen figurines, that Joseph Toth, a Mansfield, Ohio gun collector had 35 fine machine pistols, that Schwab's Drugstore in Beverly Hills, Calif, stocked $200 gold lighters, that the E. L. Doheny home in Los Angeles had gold bathroom fixtures, and that "rich people live in Ten Hills, Baltimore...
This week, in the first top-hat event of the season, first-nighters saw England's fine company do a Russian masterpiece the way it is still done only in the Soviet Union and Covent Garden. They sat, charmed, through the complete three-act, three-hour-long Tchaikovsky-Petipa ballet The Sleeping Beauty. Few could say they had ever seen a more lavish spectacle and dancing grace on a U.S. ballet stage. It took Conductor Constant Lambert a full five minutes to get the music in motion again after the thunderous ovation for Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann...
Singing Octavian, the Marschallin's unripe lover, was not 27-year-old Contralto Bible's first operatic excursion in trousers: last year, she made the same kind of hit in her hurried debut as Cherubino in the City Center's fine production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. But she is beginning to hope it may be her last. She has sung the role of Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana and Mercedes in Carmen, but feels that she still has to prove that she can also sing in skirts...
...back came the Crusaders with one long pass and a long scoring pass featuring the drive. And with the help of several very bad Harvard punts, and several more very good passes by Malloy, the Crusaders were on the one inch line at the half. Only a fine goal-line stand prevented a touchdown...
...second half is better left alone. Unleashing a spirited running attack against the flagging Crimson defenses and seasoning with a fine selection of Malloy passes Holy Cross completely dominated play...