Word: finley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Double-Scorned. In Lebanon, Ohio, a few hours after husband Charles Finley, 57, sued for divorce, Mrs. Cecile Finley, 56, shot him in the right hand, explained later: "If he had only put his arm around me, I wouldn't have shot...
...police commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and the most famed Rough Rider on San Juan Hill. He ran successfully for governor of New York and Vice President of the U.S. while bands blared A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, and admirers extravagantly told of his exploits (Finley Peter Dunne as "Mr. Dooley" wrote: "In Wounded Knee he busts a broncho that has kilt almost th' entire male popylation; busts it so har-rd 'twud dhraw a baby cerredge without wakin' the occupant...
...John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot, noted, "If the Winthrop fellows are going to breakfast at Winthrop, I can't see that Eliot is much farther...
University officials, worried by the recent wave of theft in College dormitories, have been waging an all-out campaign against the prowler--but none has devised as novel a technique as that suggested by John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House...
...Finley version, posted in Eliot House, warned of the thefts and continued: "You are urged by the University Police to tackle any such intruder, detain him, and call the police--after which you may go back...