Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experts, will cost him about $2,000 a month per gun. His white hunter will take him where the game is, stand by with an express rifle in case he misses. His black boy will have a hot bath and a cold drink ready at the finish of a day's hunting. The only things the sportsman is advised to bring to Africa with him are: dinner jacket, Springfield rifle & ammunition, alligator raincoat, chamois windbreaker. camel's hair jacket, light polo coat for chilly evenings, camera & films, light, ankle-high walking boots...
...serious, to examination which I did write; and, I did feel, very well; but was much disturbed by man at back of me who did grunt and puff and say strong things most violently. "Poor soul," thought I to myself, "the widow hath failed him again." But I to finish...
...squiggled his signature on an executive order and NRA at last folded its moulting blue wings and sank to ashes. Of its remaining 2,000 employes, 600 were ordered fired, about 30 were transferred to the Department of Labor, the rest to the Department of Commerce where they will finish their work by April 1 and quit...
...feel little sympathy for Faust. Finest singing of the evening was done by Edith Mason, oldtime soprano who was rejoining the Metropolitan after a 15-year absence. As Marguerite her round, mature figure prohibited any real illusion but she sang in true operatic style, with expert clarity and finish...
...scenes so nearly resemble the ancient slave mart as the annual winter meetings of the American and National baseball leagues. For three days owners and managers haggle, trade and sell players, vociferously deny the deals to newshawks, and then disperse, hopeful that their club will finish...