Word: finn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles, Georg Schneevoigt stepped into the post left vacant by the death of Walter Henry Rothwell for his first concert, Oct. 27. A Finn, 53, he has an enviable European reputation, is known in the U. S. only for a short guest appearance with the Boston Symphony...
...chance for the prize by rescuing a drowning opponent. Byron Summers, the California "flying fish," swam to the tune of a band in his boat, swam many miles, caught cramps when in second place. Ethel Hertle, 15 miles out and in third place, collapsed with cold. Edith Heden, Finn, screamed with pain and was taken out, bitten by eels. "Women have a horror of that sort of thing. It makes them sick," said Miss Daisy King Shaw, who was also bitten by eels. Eels like grease...
...George Wolf, Manhattan architect, had good reason to be vexed at himself after permitting F. K. Douglas and Walter Bryant, shifty blackamoors, to hornswoggle him in this manner. Last week Detective Finn had good reason to plume himself after detecting that the garbage-leggers were F. K. Douglas and Walter Bryant...
...thinks people suspect him of knowing a lot about how Mitch Miller (the subject of a novel Author Masters published in 1920) got killed, Kit O'Brien leaves Petersburg, 111., with two of his friends. Hungry, they steal apple pie. His friends get caught, but Kit proceeds, Huck Finn fashion, down the Illinois River into the Mississippi. There on a houseboat he finds Miss Siddons, an impoverished ac tress with a disfigured face, living with a madman. When Kit dis covers that she too is an outcast from Petersburg, he obligingly takes her back there. Expecting to be arrested...
...Kenneth Dorn '27; J. G. Dow '27; R. E. Durkee Jr. '29; R. R. Ehrlich '29; K. C. Elkins '27; S. W. Elton '27; R. A. Emich '27; J. H. Faul Jr. '27; G. R. Faxon '29; I. F. Fine '27; T. E. Finley Jr. '27; H. G. Finn '28; J. G. Flemming '28; E. C. Fors '29; S. L. Fox '27; S. T. Frame '27; D. D. Frantz '28; H. C. Frost Jr. '28; Emanuel Ginsburg '28; A. S. Gross '28; R. R. Guthrie '28; E. C. Haggerty '27; Masakatsu Hamamoto '27; E. A. Harper '27; H. L. Harvey...