Word: finne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Internal Revenue. In Cobh, Eire, Rachel Finn paid a shilling for eggs, took them home, broke one, found a shilling inside...
...none of the voyagers had an immigration visa, they could not enter the U.S. They were shepherded to a warehouse on Miami's Municipal Pier 2. Cots and food were donated by well-wishers. There the voyagers made themselves at home with the 29 other Estonians and one Finn who had landed from the Inanda and the Brill. For the time being, they seemed patient...
...less outlandish and surprising than if Finn MacCool, his long-legged self, had turned around in the middle of his runnin' lep from the Giant's Causeway and said: "The Sassenach are a fine, fair-minded and glorious people...
...literature. I can remember that when I was a boy it never occurred to anybody that Mark Twain might be a great writer, and the suggestion would have brought laughter. Later on, I saw the same attitude taken toward Jack London; but the public went on reading Huckleberry Finn and The Call of the Wild, and it still does...
Maurice H. Finn...