Word: fining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until by the end of the 15th volume, 9,000,000 words and 7,000 plates will have passed into print. The price: $32 a volume, $480 for the set. Said McGraw-Hill President Curtis Benjamin: "We were attracted the great and very evident resurgence of interest in the fine arts in America, and by the fact that more than 5,000,000 students are now studying art in one form or another in the U.S.A." It is a fair bet the figure will keep right on rising...
Poet & Piano Mover. Her luminous eyes-so bright that Hollywood cameramen never liked to shoot her too close-and her fine, mobile mouth are often overshadowed by a carefully careless costume: thick, shapeless sweaters, flat shoes, coarse hair uncombed, and the rugged tongue of someone who takes refuge in being thought a "kook." She loves to demonstrate eccentricity. One night she was sitting with a group of friends who were kidding her about her carelessness with money. Promptly Annie pulled a $20 bill from her purse and started eating it, nibbling the edges like a rabbit tackling lettuce. "I just...
...Department. They have agreed to tighten prosecution against deceptive commercials in the food, drug and cosmetic fields. Convicted advertisers would face criminal penalties of up to $5,000 and six months in jail for a first offense. Second offenders would face a year in jail and a $10,000 fine...
Underwood, who was appointed 23 years ago by F.D.R. and is known as a tough man on the bench, disregarded the trustbusters' recommendations. He fined the companies $20,000 and the individuals $5,000, plus the jail sentences, saying: "In cases of this character a fine is not a sufficient deterring factor." When defense attorneys protested that the jailing was unheard of. Underwood snapped: "There always has to be a first time...
...ELIOT, by Angus Wilson. The freshly widowed heroine tries to find a career and a woman's card of identity; all she seems to turn up is welfare-state boredom and ineffectually Angry Young Men, many of whom are not men at all. Author Wilson, his fine style dipped in malice, deftly destroys whole chunks of English society...