Word: fining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urchins had lots of prey. American students, lured by a dreamy conception of sunny Italy drawn from Browning, Fine Arts 11, and "The Lays of Ancient Rome," came down in swarms from France and Switzerland. In Venice, St. Mark's square looked as though all of Harvard had been transferred there for the summer term, and if you got lost in the incredible tangle of streets and canals in other parts of the city, it was a sure bot you could spot a seersucker jacket and follow it back to familiar ground...
Friends and neighbors began piling in and the phone rang without stopping. The Cohens' four daughters, two of whom are married, were jubilant. Benjamin Cohen, a laundry manager, and his wife sat in stunned silence for a while, scarcely able to believe their good luck on that fine evening last June...
Really There. There were a few fine portraits. Lester Bentley's George Wyckoff Jr., a straightforward picture of a boy whittling, looked like a good bet to win the exhibition's popularity prize. Charles Hopkinson's carefully constructed Double Portrait of a mother and daughter showed the dean of U.S. portraitists at the top of his form. At 80, Hopkinson is more than ever concerned with creating an illusion M>f reality on canvas. "Things are really there," he explains, with a diffident wave of his hand, "so why shouldn't one try to capture...
...wife's health. Last week, "with great reluctance," he resigned from the $10,000-a-year job to return to the Manhattan law firm of Sullivan, Donovan & Heenehan as a partner. No politico, Hanrahan considered SEC a regulatory rather than a reform agency, thus got along fine with Wall Streeters. Besides, he understood Wall Street's problems and talked its language. During Hanrahan's reign as chairman, the Hoover Commission praised SEC as "an outstanding example of the independent commission at its best...
...within cheating distance" was working on it for the nutty British owner, 49-year-old Mrs. Frances Trollope. They were selling her bricks at three times the market price, laying "gas pipes" that conducted nothing but a steady flow of hot air. So no one was surprised when one fine day "the old Trollope" gathered her bankrupt skirts around her "robust and masculine" limbs and fled back to England-one of the first, but not, alas, one of the last Britishers to invade the U.S. market without first carefully studying its price indexes and consumer needs...