Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finger or two fingers before going out to the privy ? As I recall, schoolmarms were sharply divided into those advocating the raising of one finger and those advocating the raising of two fingers. There was always considerable suspense among the kids at every change of teachers until that detail was settled. We were never told how many fingers to raise, and the schoolmarm never wrote such instructions on the blackboard in our presence. But after a recess period, or coming to school in the morning we found the instructions written neatly on the blackboard and the teacher very preoccupied with...
Ross Wyatt took the stand, told in detail how Mary Jo had drawn two hearts, arrow-joined, when she applied for a job with him; how he first kissed her, how they became intimate three weeks later, how they took a ten-day trip to Florida at her suggestion, spent weekends in tourist camps and hotels, how she loved...
...Grant Park (named for Confederate Colonel L. P. Grant-no relation of Ulysses S. Grant-who designed the city's defense fortifications), the 50-foot by 150-foot Cyclorama, whereon is depicted the Battle of Atlanta in exact, stupendous detail...
...When Boy Scouts or Girl Guides are assigned to "water detail," voices pipe up: "Stay out of those bushes"; "Be careful of the side of the barn...
...year-old Ambassador to Mexico proposes to tell the whole of his long life. Taking him through his 30th year, it concerns itself somewhat with his boyhood (his mother's War memories, camp meetings, small-town life, two decades of Reconstruction), chiefly, and in great factual detail, with his young manhood...