Word: finning
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...subject of this lecture will be "La fin du theatre religieux; son interet litteraire et historique," and will given in French. It will be open to the public...
...carnation in my buttonhole I am going to the Semitic Museum at 10 o'clock. Professor Lowes has reached the dim and yeasty 'nineties in English 26, and he will talk this morning on Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, the two gaily mad and sadly gay giants of the fin de siecle...
...Blind Pigger." "When he handed it to the narrow-minded gang I bet you a fin he meant the damn Prohibitionists. I wonder if he takes a drink once in a while...
...Attorney for Colonel Sprague declared: "There was a meeting in New York fin 1920] of a group of wealthy men, friends of General Wood. They agreed that the campaign would cost $1,000,000 and that they would underwrite it. A substantial part of that amount was raised and taken by Procter and spent in an expensive and elaborate campaign, and he continued to spend to a total...
Darius the Mede was not an exceptionally cruel man. He merely pandered to the tastes of his subjects who, effete with a fin-de-siècle weariness, derived immense gratification from the spectacle of carnivorous animals at their meals. It is hard to think that so astute a monarch could have been vexed with the lion who succumbed to pity, shedding, it is said, small drops of woe when confronted with the lean and shivering Daniel. They only were cruel who jeered the gentle beast for his clemency...