Word: finising
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Yonder is Finis Garrett, the Democratic leader. He is brilliant but inclined to be erratic. Ogden Mills is just coming in. He is a Republican and comes from the silk stocking district of Manhattan, a Harvard man, with plenty of money, able, incisive, one of the best on the Ways...
Mrs. Harper, a minister's wife, was brought. "Poor Mr. George," she said. Yes, he had told her he was Booth, one night when he was at death's door in El Reno, Okla. He had wished lilacs near his coffin. He had mentioned a Texan named Bates. Yes, the...
When Finis Bates arrived he took incognito to gave his friend's body from mob violence. For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb. And years before, near death...
¶ Captain Adolphus Andrews, skipper of the Mayflower, wrote what was generally regarded as a tolerant finis to the incident in which two of Mr. Coolidge's Marine guards were detected in a lapse of duty. Captain Adolphus ruled that one of the men, Corporal Andrew Chantos of Cleveland...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, who strenuously fought the Admiralty chiefs, did not even offer to resign. Doubtless he remembered that his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, had written finis to his political career in 1886 when, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he suddenly made good his threat to resign...