Word: finn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House mixed the taxpayers a heady drink-and slipped Harry Truman a mild Mickey Finn...
...easiest way to get DDT was to make it himself. He was turning it out by the gallon in his cellar. Said Steuber: any competent chemist can figure out the formula and make DDT out of non-priority materials. The ingredients are: chloral hydrate (better known as "Mickey Finn"), monochlor benzine, and concentrated sulfuric acid...
After all these years of being almost entirely shut off from anything on that side of the Atlantic, and even now when one has waited in vain for letters from friends and relatives over there, you may understand that TIME is certainly welcome. It is, as a former American-Finn expressed it, like a long-lost brother come back...
...sweet, soft voice texture which stirred and delighted Chicagoans, Father Finn achieved by instructing high sopranos to sing moo; low sopranos, mee; first altos, mah; second altos, maw. "When you hear them mooing and making and everything, it's like listening to a lot of flutes...
...that the ice is broken, "Finn's Jennies" will go on making Chicago appearances, but Father Finn can't visualize a road tour: "I've done so much barnstorming myself, I'm as bad as Ethel Barrymore. But you can't have the sisters singing one-night stands...