Word: finning
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...disposes of the Irish problem. Meanwhile, militant Irish congregate in London to plot bombings and other extralegal redresses. A delegation of three calls on Ross; people in his circle begin wondering where the young M.P.'s loyalties lie. Symons also conducts a guided tour of London's fin de siècle bohemia, where the names conjured with include Whistler, Turner and Beardsley. Oscar Wilde drops in on a party and charms everyone he greets...
...greatest meal he ever had catered, Manning claims, was coming out of Shanghai after President Nixon's 1972 visit to China. That historic trip had been a seemingly endless sequence of banquets with Chinese delicacies: shark's fin, goldfish in white sauce. The return to the U.S., arranged by flight crews from Guam, was fueled by McDonald's burgers, French fries and milkshakes...
...Fin de Siecle Vienna, by Carl Schorske...
...Fin de La Siecle Vienna, by Carl Schorske...
...proletarian lurchers and terriers. Almost always, however, they were moralized. The "pathetic fallacy," the somewhat tiresome habit of affixing human feelings and traits to animals or plants, reached its height in Victorian England. It was Landseer's use of it, along with his extraordinarily realistic observation of fur, fin and feather, that made him a demigod of popular culture...