Word: fining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually there had been a usual and very British adjustment of the whole affair behind the scenes, but London editors, whom Mr. Hore-Belisha had made his best press agents, had given the affair a fine buildup. Cartoonists had a field day (see cut). On this occasion Mr. Hore-Belisha may have regretted the warm friendship, for he saw that much the best thing for his political future is to retire quietly with a stiff British upper...
...reply was made as the Inter-American Neutrality Committee met in Rio de Janeiro. Opening the first session of the meeting, President Getulio Vargas of Brazil declaimed that the Americas had as much right to establish a peace zone as European nations had to proclaim a war zone. This fine thought was not followed by any practical suggestions. In Buenos Aires, Argentina's Foreign Minister José Maria Cantilo suggested that if Great Britain and France would agree to send no more warships into the safety zone, it might be possible to get Germany to promise the same thing...
Many a music student or musical amateur has itched to play a part in a fine symphony orchestra or string quartet. To give such amateurs a chance to play in professional company, a Viennese violinist named Fritz Rothschild four years ago invented a new kind of phonograph record. With other able professionals, Rothschild recorded standard classical quartets and sonatas. Each record was made with one part missing. For violinists he made a violinless quartet, for cello players a cello-less one. By playing one of these records, the lone amateur violinist or cellist could dub in his part as best...
...Eyed Butcher, Give the Fiddler a Dram, Chittlin' Cookin' Time in Cheatham County. Others, plaintive and plunky like Maple on the Hill, Brown's Ferry Blues, Nobody's Darlin' but Mine, have gone on to wide juke-box favor. One recent find was a fine old Fundamentalist allegory called The Great Speckled Bird, probably inspired by Jeremiah...
...conservative Commonwealth Club 200 Virginians and their guests last week gathered to dine on terrapin stew, beaten biscuits, Smithfield ham and orange ice, toast Argentina and the U. S. in brimming glasses of champagne. Cause of these happy doings: a preview that night at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts of the largest show of Argentine art ever put on outside South America. Said Argentine Ambassador Felipe A. Espil: "A country's artistic creations are the best exponents of its psychology and temperament." Eighty-year-old Counselor Robert Walton Moore of the U. S. Department of State agreed...