finklestein

Updated: May 22, 2025

That was on Saturday night, when Bessie Finklestein called for me; and Bessie and I, with arms entwined, called for Sadie Rabinowitch; and Bessie and Sadie and I, still further entwined, called for Annie Reilly; and Bessie, etc., etc., inextricably wound up, marched up Broadway, and took possession of all we saw, heard, guessed, or desired, from end to end of that main thoroughfare of Chelsea.

Mary Antin - The Promised Land

The only name I have is Josephine Spencer Francis and so far as I know it is thus written on my birth certificate." "Birth certificate, ay? Where were you born? Speak up, don't mumble." "Russia, without a doubt," muttered Assemblyman Brown. "Youre sure it isnt Franciski or Franciscovitch? Or say, Finklestein?"

Ward Moore - Greener Than You Think

"My idea of a shyster is a down-at-the-heels, unshaved and generally disreputable-looking police-court lawyer preferably with a red nose who murders the English language and who makes his living by preying upon the ignorant and helpless." "Like Finklestein?" suggested Tutt. "Exactly!" agreed Miss Wiggin. "Like Finklestein." "He's one of the most honorable men I know!" protested Mr. Tutt.

Arthur Cheney Train - By Advice of Counsel

When at last he opened his eyes he saw several dozen cards plastered upon the ceiling directly over his head, reading: GO TO LEVY & FINKLESTEIN ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW WE GET YOU MONEY! "Ah!" he murmured, rubbing his eyes and turning to the nurse; "I thought I was in some strange place, but I see that all my friends have been to call already!"

Arthur Cheney Train - The Confessions of Artemas Quibble : Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities, and Sundry Artifices of Himself and Others of the Fraternity, Commonly Yclept "Shysters" or "Shyster Lawyers"