Word: finley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personages with influence caught Bremen-fever, caught the Bremen too. Personages: U. S. Senator Royal Samuel Copeland; Peter Finley "Mr. Dooley" Dunne; Mr. & Mrs. Gustave A. Heckscher; Soprano Frieda Hempel; Editor George Horace Lorimer of the Saturday Evening Post ("merely...
...highest traveling award open to a Senior, the Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship, was awarded to Raymond Finley Courtney, of Tulsa. Oklahoma, who graduated Summa cum Laude in Philosophy, and ranked as one of the two leading scholars in the graduating class...
...Finley opposes twentieth century standards in another, more fundamental way. His book is steeped with a weariness, a languid longing for quiet, that has little in common with the more typical energy of such men as Sandburg. The plot of the masque is of little consequence, and consists of a series of wrangles by a group of characters fancifully entitled Rabbot, Porcupine, Fox, etc., about inconsequential topics and the efforts of Thalia, the Rustic Muse, to restore peace. Around this outline are massed a series of natural descriptions, almost everyone of which is filled with this longing for solitude...
...small portion of New York University's fame derives from the quasi-official Hall of Fame which was founded within its precincts and entrusted to its care in 1900 by Mrs. Finley J. Shepard at the suggestion of the late Henry Mitchell MacCracken, Chancellor (1891-1911) of N. Y. U. There, august in bronze and marble, stand the busts of 49 famed Americans, including Robert Fulton, Horace Mann, Maria Mitchell, Edgar Allen Poe, Ulysses Simpson Grant, George Washington, Mark Hopkins, Gilbert Charles Stuart. There, too, shall stand John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft James Fenimore Cooper, Patrick Henry, James Russell Lowell...
...Conductor. Dayton, Ohio, as everyone knows, hears the first clang of more newborn cash registers than any other city in the world. Many persons have still to be informed, however, that Dayton hears also the best choral music sung today in the U.S., for which credit is due John Finley Williamson, a conductor who knew what he wanted, and Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, a wealthy Daytonian who believed...