Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laughing again, waggles head around, holds up finger to make point...
...lady was dancing in the aisle, and was ejected. A single finger beat with monomaniacal purpose on a single piano key, a one-chord keynote to a kaleidoscope of sound...
...Indian movies: "One white guy always managed to kill off a bunch of Indians. They should try hiring some of us sometime so we can show them how real Indians act. I was in a bit part once in an Alan Ladd picture. I got bumped off just like [finger-snap] that...
...only be taken as a demonstration of the same spirit which produced our editorial." Lampy huffed, while at the same time apologizing for the bad taste of the editorial and the whole issue. "The pressure was there, however, and the Lampoon was merely the first to put its finger on it," the letter to the Princetonian continued...
Friedrich Hebbel, 19th century German dramatist, perhaps put his finger on why Compulsion fails to be large and liberating drama when he said that in a good play everyone must seem in the right. For the two killers this is impossible, less because of how hideous their crime is than how gratuitous: it lacks an understandably human motive. Clinically, the crime can be explained: given a lawless Jazz Age, two badly spoiled, rich men's sons, a homosexual neurosis and a Nietzschean intellectual arrogance, and such a chemical mixture may explode into murder-for-a-thrill. But the case...