Word: finches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spence School, just off Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, and The Finch School, farther uptown, lead the U. S. city finishing schools. A year or two at either is thought good for Western girls, but Spence has also a large Manhattan clientele. Both offer preparation for college, but are attended rather for their adjacence to the theatre, the opera, the Metropolitan Museum. Both are considered "ultra."* The headmistress of Finch is Mrs. John O'Hara Cosgrave. Clara B. Spence, strong and gracious of personality, died last spring...
...present instance the sudden fortune is acquired by promoting brains. It is all rather rapid; familiarly amusing; shrewdly seasoned to the public taste. Robert Ames and Vivian Tobin are thoroughly acceptable in the leading roles. The visitor may also take delight in recognizing in the cast Flora Finch, cinema comedienne with the most angular features that ever cracked a custard...
...Prairie Oil and Gas Co., Prairie Pipe Line Co., Solar Refining Co., South Penn. Oil Co., Penn-Mex Fuel Co., South West Pennsylvania Pipe Line Co., Southern Pipe Line Co., the Standard Oil Companies of California, Indiana, Kansas,. Kentucky, Nebraska, New Jersey, Louisiana, New York and Ohio, Swan & Finch Co., Union Tank Car Co., Vacuum Oil Co; and the Washington Oil Co. The combined capitalization of these companies is $957,843,750, but as it has until very recently been the policy of Standard Oil to undercapitalize, its actual resources are considerably in excess of this sum. Within the last...