Word: finn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Basing his hopes on the showing his team made yesterday Coach Mikkola afterward expressed optimism about next week's Big Three triangular meet with Princeton and Yale. "We have as good a chance as anyone," the genial Finn assorted...
...says Author Asbury, who observed, "There's a sucker born every minute." During the four terms of Mayor Carter Harrison Sr., McDonald's casino was in effect the city hall, and Chicago's politics well nigh outstank those of William Tweed's New York. Mickey Finn dispensed his deadly cocktails. Fifty thousand men existed solely on free lunch provided by saloons. The mass-murderer H. H. Holmes destroyed from 30 to 300 victims in the torture chambers of his "castle" on 63rd Street...
...Luyhx" was a Finn, with a strong weakness for whiskey. After a terrific binge, lasting several weeks, an ambulance rushed him to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. He was comatose from alcohol, and he had a compound fracture of a leg. He guessed later he must have tumbled, or maybe been kicked, down a stairway somewhere. During his three-week binge Luyhx had eaten practically nothing, and his system was so starved that no immediate surgery could be thought of. After several days it was obvious that only amputation of his leg would save his life. Bellevue's Social...
...three-man Swedish trade delegation (going to Moscow for new markets, raw materials to replace those lost in the West), boomed a Swedish-Russian rapprochement based on protective Russian power. Significant was revived talk of a Russian-Finnish-Swedish treaty for joint fortification of the strategic Aland Islands, with Finn Juho Paasikivi, whom Stalin likes, as possible intermediary. Sweden, impressed alike by Soviet moderation in Finland and the Baltic States, and German "protection" in Denmark and Poland, seemed about to make the best of a none too good bargain...
Three boats were entered from each college. The Crimson sailing trio was composed of Finn Ferner, roger Willcox, and Report Sherwood...