Word: finneganisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Democratic Party. Apart from instances of penny-ante skulduggery that resulted in resignations, a flock of damning charges turned into at least eight court convictions. Reconstruction Finance Corp. Loan Examiner E. Merl Young was convicted of perjury. Nailed, too, were Massachusetts Tax Collector Denis Delany (bribery), Missouri Collector James Finnegan (who collected legal retainers from firms doing business with the Government), former Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph Nunan Jr. (income tax evasion), California Deputy Collector Ernest M. Schino and Nevada's BIR Chief Field Deputy Patrick Mooney (conspiracy to defraud the Government). Two later catches, White House Appointments Secretary...
...verbal arrangements as to our usual view of action and motive. No one would deny even young writers the right to manipulate point of view and form, but it should be obvious that this can succeed only when it is based upon a mastery of the realistic method. Finnegan's Wake comes after Dubliners, and King Lear after Henry...
Died. James Aloysius Finnegan, 51, secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, manager of Adlai Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign; of pneumonia, complicated by a lung cancer; in Philadelphia...
...comments were saved for local issues on which he ' could bang away at Goodwin Knight, e.g. California's critical water shortage, the high state budget. He did not attack Knight by name, but he said pointedly that California needed "executive leadership," not "an on-again, off-again Finnegan approach...
Gene Lyons makes the role of James wholly believable and he picks up his cues with model alertness. Edward Finnegan's Dr. Baston is a delightfully sympathetic old codger--a carefully filled out characterization. Robin Morgan sparkles impeccably as the perky, mischievous and not always truthful adolescent, Anne...