Word: finne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacCallister is pictured as a modern Huck Finn who doesn't take much to schoolin' but who likes horses. After being humiliated by his Shirley Temple counterpart, he proves his worth as a trotting jockey and wins cups, laurels, and a kiss...
...Readers Basilico, Jaffe, et al. never hear, then, of the great Finn MacCool (TIME, Nov. 1) ? He was well known to have lepped the width of Ireland (115 Sassenach miles) in three jumps, and could outrun a hare or a stag itself, and he merely moving his legs gently, the way he'd be restoring his circulation...
Twain was at the top of his popularity in 1883, when he and Charles Webster became partners. Twain had always had troubles with publishers-"pirates, scoundrels . . . humiliating swindles." Partner Webster at once began to have Twain trouble. First it was what Twain called "Huck Finn-that God-damned book!" He was certain it would not sell (it sold some 300,000 copies the first year...
...F.A.A. President Robert H. Keys, lashing out in all directions, blamed the strike on 1) stubborn plant management, 2) the Government, 3) a hostile National Association of Manufacturers. Pleading the case for his foremen, President Keys said: "All they ask is an avenue for negotiation. . . ." Explained Foreman H. J. Finn, whose son was reported missing in the Pacific last July: "I am fighting for a principle and my son was fighting for a principle, too. Both are important...
...among Finnish politicos and businessmen, Scott found a single-minded determination to fight to the last Finn. "Their attitude towards the Russians is summed up in an old Finnish 'magic song': Just this much they will get from me: what an ax gets from a stone, a stump from slippery ice, or death from an empty room...