Word: finished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Oxford undergraduates, celebrating their first crew race victory over Cambridge in 14 years, rampaged through London's show district, invading theatres in some of which they climbed on the stage and "took over the show." Rightly suspecting that the young gentlemen would want to finish up by stealing the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus, police had it swiftly boarded up and a hollow square of burly Bobbies easily withstood charge after tipsy Oxonian charge. Old Oxonian A. P. Herbert, famed Punch funster and Member of Parliament, attended the fray for hours, ready according to his wisecracks...
...oars might lock. Then, with Hodgson at stroke, Sturrock and Cherry, veterans of England's Olympic crew, in the next two slides, Oxford began to draw away. Its lead was a boat's length at Barnes Bridge, two lengths at White Hart Inn, three lengths at the finish...
When the picture was half finished, faithful Hendrickje Stoffels (much more plump in life than in the film) died. Rembrandt was too affected to finish it. In the summer of 1665 Harmen Becker, a pawn broker of Amsterdam, came to press the painter for 537 guilders. Pawnbroker Becker discovered in the studio the still unfinished picture of Juno. Pawnbroker Becker had an eye. He promised to take something off Rembrandt's debt if Juno were finished and turned over to him. Rembrandt complied and, once delivered to Pawnbroker Becker, Juno disappeared for many years...
...Pulitzer Prize on points, for sheer beauty. Last week she went at the hurdle of her second novel- which for authors is what Becher's Brook is for Grand National riders. Interested bystanders shook their heads over a near-cropper, gave odds that she would not finish in the money, and those who attach more value to performance than style said Author Johnson's Pegasus got his feet all mixed up in metaphors, looked better in a show ring than he did over a fence...
Danny felt awful about it, thought of running away. But for some reason he finished out the year, as for some reason very inquisitive readers may want to finish the book...