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Died. Dr. John Huston Finley, 76, walker (ten or twelve miles a day), talker (afterdinner and lectures), editor-emeritus of the New York Times; of a coronary embolism, while asleep; in Manhattan...
...make his point he invoked the following authorities: Aristotle, Lactantius, St. Luke, St. Basil, St. Chrysostom, St. Ambrose, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Calvin, Cotton Mather, Andrew D. White, Chesterton, Will Rogers. Fond of parties, he holds his cigaret between his teeth, dominates the room with talk. Regularly he falls asleep at 10 p.m., wakes at 11:30, talking. A lover of word games, playful mental feats, he is often to be found contorted on the floor, acting out some far-fetched pun.* Battling with a fellow commissioner on a point of law, he recently sent him a memorandum containing...
...huge Japanese lay half asleep on the immaculate mats of his living-room floor. Wall panels had been pulled wide so that he could contemplate his precise garden and bask in the afternoon sunshine. His brown, rough-silk kimono lay open from shoulder to ankle, his undershirt was unbuttoned, he wiggled his toes in white, mitten-like socks. His radio blared a grunt-by-grunt account of the winter sumo wrestling matches...
...theorists had become pragmatic, the practical were now willing to take a few theories. The scent of battle, and not a hopeless battle, brought Republicans together in Washington last week. To them the New Deal Administration was like an overfat, overspread empire, whose sentinels are asleep, whose palaces are termite-rotten under the gilt. The hungry guerrillas peered at Glenn Frank's battle-chart and sniffed...
...late the next afternoon-though Tony lost track of time in the hushed rooms where the only sounds were Judy's and his voices-that he heard someone knocking. He opened the door. There stood his teacher, and the lady from across the hall. "Mamma's asleep," he told them uncertainly...