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Stone was fetchingly clad in one of the boxy-looking, fuzzy teddy-bear cloth, finger-tip length jackets which simply everyone is wearing this autumn, with softly shirred shoulders, woven hairline stripes and a parade of novelty buttons from the becoming V neckline to the jaunty angle...
...perhaps 100,000 British, Colonial and Arab soldiers. They are strung out along the pipelines from Kirkuk to Haifa and Tripoli and from Mosul to Alexandretta, guarding the oil that fuels the Allies' eastern Mediterranean naval forces. Their assemblage of air power headquartered at Aqaba (on the eastern finger-tip of the Red Sea), has auxiliary fighting bases scattered far up into Iraq...
...That without getting off his seat, its driver can lift his plough over any such obstacle by simply touching a finger-tip control...
...self-starter and a system of finger-tip hydraulic controls...
...Grace was heralded by fanfares, tuckets and sennets such as seldom announce anything less than the birth of a Prince of Wales or the entrance of Lit-tul Lillian Leitzel. Trans-Atlantic commuters who saw its opening at the Pavilion Theatre in London were reduced to choked, ecstatic finger-tip kissing in their attempts to relate its manifold charms. Jesse Matthews, they ultimately gasped, sings "A Room with a View." . . . Tillie Losch's fluttering hands, fanciful feet . . . brilliant . . . divine...