Word: finne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Became of Gustaf. Baron Mannerheim has almost nothing in common with the average Finn except a highly developed individualism. The Finns came to their country from east of the Volga. They were trappers, woodsmen and farmers, people who never had much and could take a lot of punishment, who, though their country has been ruled by both Sweden and Russia, were never subdued by anybody. The first Mannerheim of record was a Swedish merchant named Marheim, of Dutch or German descent, who died in 1667. His grandson picked up a title and his son, who was named Carl Erik...
...first twenty in order are: Dave Goldthwaite, Bungy King, Bill Thurston, Dick Whittemore, John Burr, Harry Motley, Dick Shepley, Captain Tom Winship, Finn Ferner, Fred Coolidge, Herb Weiner, Eliot Richardson, Buck Anderson, Gerry Davis, Ed Dickson, Herby Greene, Harry Hollmeyer, Fred Peccy-Blunt, Dave Wilson, Steve Bittenbender, and Phil Field...
...first Swedish volunteers were killed in Finland last week (see p. 34). Stockholm's largest four newspapers carried full-page advertisements saying: "Now that the world knows what it is to be a Finn, it is your duty to show what it means to be a Swede. Make up your mind now and join the Swedish volunteer Army. With Finland for Sweden...
Mencken was eight when he discovered Huckleberry Finn: the discovery, "probably the most stupendous event of my whole life," set him reading Life Among the Mormons, One Thousand Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe, everything available in English. No less important to his future was his father's gift for Christmas 1888: a printing press...
...future, grows years older with every few months' gap between meetings. Through drawings and portraits of her the artist attains fame & fortune; he loses her, at last, to the great New England Hurricane. Readers who can willingly succumb to Robert Nathan's stealthy, gifted, perfumed-Mickey Finn prose will be rewarded with chills from the time-tricks, gently idealized sexual suspense, occasionally a gentle, specialized Nathan...