Word: finn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every Finn looked not so much to General Osterman as to the greatest of living Finnish commanders, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, 72, now National Defense Council President, who remained quietly at Helsinki. In the sporadic fighting between the Finnish Army and the Red Army in the months just after the Russian Revolution Baron Mannerheim "saved Finland," and for a time he was Regent when it was not yet sure that the country would become a Republic. In the 19th Century Finland was a Grand Duchy with the Tsar of Russia as its Grand Duke...
...Court. (Said Mark Twain: "It was a lucky day I went netting for lightning bugs and caught a meteor.") His drawings of monks swigging ale got him boycotted for nearly ten years by most big magazines. Another time he was made to put shoes on Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, prohibited from drawing cows with udders...
...class by Frank P. Davidson and William N. Chambers, one on the progress which education has made at Harvard in the last four years, one by Cleveland Amory on the four years athletic record of the Class of '39, and one on the House plan by Richard H. Finn...
...LOEWS STATE AND ORPHEUM--One must concede Mickey Rooney a moral triumph for toning down his elaborate facial contortions, but his tolerably effective portrayal of "Huckleberry Finn" does not save the film as a whole from being a tedious, uninspired production. What little zest remains of the hilarious Mark Twain story is submerged under the Negro Jim's long harangues flash of humor arouse the spectator's interest, as, for example, when the King and Huckleberry give a delicious parody on Romeo and Juliet. But such antics are all too infrequent, and even the melodramatic steamboat-race climax fails...
...Monday's Crimson concerning the athletic secretary for dormitory men. While the Student Council committee was indispensable in obtaining this program, the bulk of the work was nevertheless done by a committee of the Student Union, consisting of the following residents of Claverly Hall: Kwyn Abrahams '41, John Finn '41, and Paul Woodman '41. This H. S. U. committee organized the basketball team which showed the H. A. A. that dormitory men were interested in athletics, and it was their persistence that finally obtained the program. I fear that the prevailing belief in Harvard that...