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Word: fingered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called Fabienne, spends many film feet in his arms and on his lips-be the place Paris or Venice or the desert sands. They get married, quarrel, make up, etc. And finally, DEATH-Prince Fazil, mortally wounded by bandits, takes off his poison ring and lovingly punctures the white finger of Fabienne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...tame (from hand-feeding) that you could take them with only a landing-net. They were so thick that there was not enough natural feed for them. Stinting their artificial diet made them so ravenous that they would strike at anything you dropped overboard-a cigarette butt, a finger. Mr. Pierce was a sportsman and permitted only flyfishing, with barbless hooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Brule | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...convention's eve, June n, for the annual meeting of the Budget Bureau. As soon thereafter as possible he said, he would leave for Brule, Wis. (see p. 7). Commentators commented on the President's timing of the Budget meeting, when he will certainly insert his finger one last, perhaps decisive time into his Party's pie, employing the impressive gesture of a speech about U. S. finances in the most recent year of his Administration. Last week he remained no more and no less a candidate than he had been since his oracular "choice" of last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Grand Old Party | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...final finger at the end of the Law's long arm in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania is a tall gaunt man named Robert G. Elliott, official executioner for those four States. After society had finally decided it must take the lives of Communists Sacco & Vanzetti last summer, it was Executioner Elliott who threw the electric switch. He also killed Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, and over 100 less famed criminals. When he took up his profession in 1926 he tried to keep it secret. But his name leaked out after a year. He has been uneasy ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: In Dunton | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...apparently irrelevant fact stood like a prognosticating index finger. A month ago the Pennsylvania withdrew its long support from Leonor Fresnel Loree's fifth eastern railroad system and paid him 63 million dollars to drop the matter (TIME, May 7). For getting Mr. Loree out of the railroads' way, the Pennsylvania was to get passage along the southern shore of Lake Erie to Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Again, Frustration | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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