Word: fink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mark Twain had once described a legendary Mississippi River roustabout, Mike Fink, as "half man, half alligator," the Vagabond remembered. That certainly caught his character right,--a leathery-hides roughneck, quick with a knife, ready to let you have it with hands, feet, fingernails, anti teeth if he didn't like the way you shook your dice...
...cleaned things up in Washington when he was elected. In Tennessee a fellow who didn't own a big spread of buckshot land and had to scratch along in the pines some-where didn't see things just the same way as a Virginia Whig. So Mike Fink was a Democrat...
...whom are second year students, are Cecil B. Annett, Jr., Moorestown, N. J.; Milo V. Buchanan, Washington, D. C.; William L. Claff, Malden; William J. Deyo, Jr., Tillson, N. Y.; Joel Esquith, New York, N. Y.; Morton K. Fink, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert Gueiroard, Paris, France; Ralph F. Lowis, St. Louis, Mo.; William Little, Cambridge; Milton J. Margolis, Dayton, O.; Richard F. Neuschel, Hamburg, N. Y.; Summer A. Pendleton, Somerville; Richard H. Rush, Washington, D. C.; Fred N. Twining, Orinda, Calif.; Morton L. Weiss, West Chester, Pa.; and John W. Welcker, Springfield...
...JACOB FINK...