Word: finnish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Symphony Hall stage last week at precisely the same moment that Leopold Stokowski appeared on the Philadelphia Academy of Music stage. Koussevitzky's entrance was dignified, unflurried. Stokowski fairly flew from the wings. But then Stokowski had a longer first lap. He had the gloomy Fourth Symphony of Finnish Jan Sibelius to get through with, whereas Koussevitzky had only a trifling piece by Corsican Henri Martelli. Stokowski's pace was brisk but with odds so against him it was not surprising that Koussevitzky was ready first to start on the first U. S. performance of Maurice Ravel...
...disgrace to the Government of Premier Sunila and a blow to Temperance, most Finnish editors angrily agreed last week, was the first price list of 200 tasty drinkables issued by Finland's State Liquor Stores just 86-days after the country voted down Prohibition...
...starving Finland at Christmas time in 1918 aroused such excitement as these present imports of 'legal liquor' into a country already full of illegal liquor. . . . Touching the assertion that the State will derive some benefit from these liquor sales it is my solemn duty to warn the Finnish people against attempting to employ Beelzebub to expel Satan...
Samoans catch flying fish with flaming torches. Eskimos shoot salmon with bows and arrows. Chinese catch whiting with tame cormorants. The Hairy Ainus of Japan catch salmon with grizzly bears. Finns catch turbot with horses. Unlike cormorants and bears, Finnish horses do not actually catch the fish, nor are they used for bait. In winter Finnish fishermen use plodding draft horses to haul away their heavy loads of fish from the holes chopped in the roof of the Baltic...
They had few provisions, no protection against the blizzard. The little colony subdivided dangerously. Small parties floated away in different directions, most of them toward Finland's greatest enemy, Soviet Russia. After 24 hours the blizzard let up sufficiently for Finnish army planes to take off. They dropped sausages, blankets, hay, most of which fell into the sea. Slower but surer, Finnish and Soviet icebreakers smashed their way to the rescue. The refugees, horses and men alike, gnawed frozen fish. At the end of the third day, all but one or two of the frost-bitten fishermen had been...