Word: fini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...awful silence. He tripped and quickly saved himself. The lions snarled, but none of them moved from the tight phalanx they had formed in the cage's center. Finally one jumped on a pedestal. "Bravo!" shouted Lawyer Valensi. Two minutes later another lion lazily climbed onto his pedestal. "Fini," cried Circus Master Bouglione. "Get him out of there. He doesn't know what he's doing. He'll make a buffet lunch for those lions...
Winter before last, Gardon had struck coal while digging in his field. Since fuel was short, he had taken the coal from the backyard. Sadly Gardon looked at the seven-foot hole in the ground. Said he: "C'est fini. I've been nationalized...
...Americans to stop, lest they hit survivors or another plane. Those on the glacier had an even greater worry. As planes swooped low to buzz the Dakota, they heard ominous rumbles in the glacier; they feared that engine vibrations were widening the fissures. To warn planes away, the word "FINI" was trudged out in the snow (see cut). Confused observers thought it might be a bad American spelling of a French word (finis) indicating that a) they had given up hope, were "finished"; or b) that they had enough supplies...
Last week the song's author was happily aware that everything was not fini. Sallow-faced, balding Composer Alstone (né Siegfried Alfred Stein), singing his hit, was the star of his own troupe at the Riviera G.I. rest center...
...Manhattan, Chappell Music Co. got set to publish C'est Fini as Symphony; song pluggers tried it out for name-band leaders. Husky-throated Marlene Dietrich recorded the French version for Decca. In translation, the French lyrics she sang were...