Word: finley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than 500 authors and publicists. Last fortnight the Democrats announced an Authors' Committee of 149 names, including Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken, Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, John Erskine, Finley Peter Dunne, George S. Kaufman, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor, etc., etc. (TIME, Sept. 24). The G. O. P. list was by far the bestseller. It included Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author...
...Finley Peter Dunne, John Erskine, Montague Glass, Owen Johnson, Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, Anne Nichols, Channing Pollock, Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken−and 149 other novelists, poets, composers, playwrights, publicists−as an Author's Committee...
Last week, Painter MacLane exhibited many a watercolor, and oil portraits of Mrs. D. Percy Morgan Jr., and of 14-year-old Samuel F. Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Finley Thomas of the Stockbridge colony. Sparkling, vivid with life, this portrait attracted particular comment. But some visitors preferred Painter Johansen's study of his 12-year-old son. Not all visitors knew that Painter Johansen and Painter MacLane are man and wife...
...Planetary Thinkers." The graduating class at Stanford University heard Dr. John Huston Finley of the New York Times utter the following: "Your president, Dr. Wilbur,* and your most distinguished graduate, Herbert Hoover . . . are the foremost planetary thinkers of this...
Evangelist Sunday paid little attention to the complaint made by a local minister that he had shown signs of commercialism in his recent Chicago revival. His Man Friday, Ralph T. Finley, of the local committee, announced from the Coliseum platform that all the proceeds from that revival had been pledged to the Pacific Garden Mission, where Sunday himself had been converted...