Word: fin
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...good people of Malden for long enough already; what you need is now vistas." So when I am offered by the CRIMSON, the eunuque opportunity of selecting the winner of the Harvard Dartmouth embroglio, I says, "What's in it for me." He says "a double sawbuck and a fin" and I says Harvard 21 Dartmouth...
They haggled for nigh a month as they traveled toward Peking. The Chinese grew testier. So did the British-they disparaged shark's-fin soup, complained of smelly peasants (like "putrefying garlic on a much-used blanket"), ridiculed the native opera ("the instrumental music, from its resemblance to the bagpipes, might be tolerated by Scotchmen; to others it was detestable"). Then, as they neared the walls of Peking, the troubled mandarins agreed that the troublesome ambassador might kneel before the Emperor on one knee and bow three times, repeating this homage thrice. The Canton trade, the British told themselves...