Word: finn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dickinson of Brooklyn College made public the full text of a letter written by the humorist in 1905. Librarian Dickinson, then of the Brooklyn Public Library, had forwarded a complaint by the young woman in charge of his Children's Department that Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were mischievous and deceitful examples for children. Replied Author Twain...
Buffalo; N. Y.: Robert E. Hempel '39, Buffalo, N. Y.; Richard B. Finn '39, Niagara Falls...
Divorced. Charles Ray, player of honest-farm-boy parts in oldtime silent films: by Mrs. Clara Grant Ray whom he married in 1915; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty, desertion, nonsupport. Died. John Coogan, father of retired Child Actor Jackie Coogan, 21; Junior Durkin, 19, actor (Huckleberry Finn, Little Men); and two others; when an automobile driven by the elder Coogan plunged down a mountain embankment; near San Diego, Calif. Son Coogan, only survivor of the accident, was injured. Died. Bronson Cutting, 46, U. S. Senator from New Mexico; in an airplane crash near Macon, Mo. (see p. 49). Member...
...SEGUNDO SOMBRA: SHADOWS ON THE PAMPAS-Ricardo Güiraldes-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). The life of a gaucho on the South American prairie. Has been called the Argentinian Huckleberry Finn...
Even with the accolade of the great composer, Conductor Janssen delayed his one Sibelius offering until last week when he closed his Philharmonic engagement. Previously he had conducted unfamiliar music which left his listeners doubtful. But with the Sibelius Fifth Symphony he proved himself worthy of the master Finn's approval. His gestures were no longer cramped and self-consciously sub- dued. In his ardor he ripped open his coat sleeve but no one thought of snickering. Sibelius had been presented in all his strength and clarity. Even the orchestramen who set their standards by Arturo Toscanini clapped...