Word: fining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoken at all. Last week, leaving a meeting of the Foreign Relations Committee, Pat Harrison stepped into the Senators' private elevator. There stood Senator Bilbo, and no one else but the operator. Turning slowly, old Pat said, "How do you do, Senator? How's your health?" "Fine," said Bilbo...
Meanwhile, in fine clear weather the Russians unloosed their greatest aerial offensive since the first terroristic raids of the war. More than 300 bombers, flying high, raided almost every important city of southern Finland, including Helsinki (where the house of U. S. Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld was struck), concentrating on the Turku-Helsinki railroad and the Bothnian railroad terminus of Vaasa. Civilian casualties were small (not more than 15), but many business structures in the smaller cities were in flames, due to inadequate fire-fighting equipment. The planes went as far north as the head of the Gulf...
Indicative of this feeling is it that Gramaphone Shop of New York listed Ellington in its catalogue--and no other jazz band! Listen to records of his such as "Little Posey" (for brass ensemble work), "Plucked Again" (for fine piano changes), "Azure" (for brilliant impressionism), "Pyramid" (for an unusual experiment in music) and no further explanation will be needed...
...script which has been completely stripped of its poetic beauty. It seems a pity that the screen did not have the daring to use Mr. Anderson's blank verse which was so effective when the play ran on Broadway a few years ago. This was almost a fine picture rather than merely a good one, but it muffled its opportunity...
...Waldron's fine second in the breaststroke in addition to Kraus' third had clinched the meet so the stage was let for a renewal of the Powers-Gibbons classic struggle in the quarter. The race has almost an exact counterpart of their meeting last year as the two Juniors battled side by side for 400 yards. Again it was Gibbons, swimming his only event of the night, who had a couple of feet of extra drive enabling him to outreach Powers at the finish...