Word: finches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ravens in the empty heavens, runs for home and father. Theme of "The Cat, a Goldfinch and the Stars" is that every individualized consciousness is circumvallated by whatever body it may inhabit. The stars knew not that the cat killed the goldfinch; the cat knew nothing about that particular finch; the bird did not know that it was life's only joy to the old couple whose dead grandchild had trained it to perch on their shoulders, peck at their ears. But the old couple thought the bird sang only to ease their mourning, that the cat planned death...
...received a 25% commission. He made of his affiliations with public officials and aspirants opportunities to talk oil, to make 25%- personal-profit sales. The Fitzsimmons property became known as "the Anti-Saloon Oil Well." Last week this admixture of Drywork and Mammonwork led him, Rev. Arthur J. Finch, to resign his superintendency in disgrace. Moreover, it caused the Colorado A. S. L. to decide no successor would be appointed, to admit temporary collapse...
...Finch had sold some of his stock to a Republican senatorial candidate, William Van Derveer Hodges, then endorsed him, reputedly a personal Wet. To Senatorial Nominee George Hamlin Shaw no stock was sold, no endorsement given (TIME, Sept. 8, Sept. 22). Other endorsed stockbuyers: Democratic Senatorial Nominee Edward Prentice Costigan, Governor William H. Adams, onetime Senator Alva Blanchard Adams, two district attorneys...