Word: finn
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...York Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted by John Barbirolli; Columbia: 10 sides; $5.50). The great Finn's most popular symphony, full of surging tunes and brassy patriotics, tooled energetically by the Philharmonic, but less polished than the older Boston Symphony recording (Victor...
...little misleading. As an intellectual volcano, the Mark Twain of this book is tired and nearing extinction. Some of the material was dictated circa 1898, but most of it after 1906. Twain had previously written his great books (the first half of Life on the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn). He had met all the right people, shaken all the right hands. He was utterly lonely. For most of his life Twain remained, as he still is, the last major U. S. literary voice...
...Mass.; Richard T. Davis 2L, Medford, Mass.; Charles E. DeLong 2L, Philadelphia, Pa.; George J. Devlin 2L, Somerville, Mass.; Paul Dobin 3L, New York, N. Y.; John F. Dowd 3L, Bellaire, L. I., N. Y.; Cecil Elfenbein 3L, Erie, Pa.; Stanley M. Epstein 2L, New Bedford, Mass.; Richard B. Finn 2L, Niagara Falls, N. Y.; Nathan Fishman 3L, Union City, N. J.; David Flower, Jr. 2L, Brookline, Mass.; Myron L. Gordon 2L, Milwaukee, Wis.; Israel J. Graff 3L, Wheeling...
Basing his hopes on the showing his team made yesterday Coach Mikkola afterward expressed optimism about next week's Big Three triangular meet with Princeton and Yale. "We have as good a chance as anyone," the genial Finn assorted...
...says Author Asbury, who observed, "There's a sucker born every minute." During the four terms of Mayor Carter Harrison Sr., McDonald's casino was in effect the city hall, and Chicago's politics well nigh outstank those of William Tweed's New York. Mickey Finn dispensed his deadly cocktails. Fifty thousand men existed solely on free lunch provided by saloons. The mass-murderer H. H. Holmes destroyed from 30 to 300 victims in the torture chambers of his "castle" on 63rd Street...