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Word: fingered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pause. Let us now change our beaming faces from a smile of loyalty to deeply furrowed frowns. Let us shake our heads and hold up a finger pregnant with remonstrance. Where is the American Flag in Cambridge? Plainly and simply-nowhere. Hardly the embers of patriotism glow in its frigid bosom. To be specific. Did the Flag, the Stars and Stripes of the American Republic, wave over University Hall on February 22 last? Yes, it did wave from two o'clock in the afternoon until six P. M. A feeble display of the ritual was carried out without that deep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PATRIOTISM IN COLLEGE | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

Undismayed, Mayor Thompson left town, going to Washington to have a fat finger in the larger political business of Flood Control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chicago Pineapples | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...felt a strange unreality in the proceedings, as if they had suddenly stopped being real people and had become instead the actors in a play. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue told his story to the court; after that he sat listening; acute observers noted that he often pared his finger nails. The brothers and sisters of Alma Gatlin supported her contention that, in point of fact; Mrs. Petty had killed their father in self defense and would have confessed the crime before her death had she not been overcome by coma. Two expert lawyers were imported to prosecute, and Alma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Murder Trial | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...lawyers, Percy T. Stiers, made the point that gave the trial its religious significance. Should a confession made, in complete confidence, to a minister, be brought into court as evidence? Lawyer Stiers pointed a thin finger at the Rev. Pardue and called him "a witch-burning Judas." He said: "Let us have freedom to go to our pastors about the things that bear on our souls." At the end there was further exchange of epithet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Murder Trial | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...shock of Sayles' death upset Tony so much that Natalie found him no longer pliant to her attractions. He took her back to Gortion in the face of a finger-pointing Berkenmeer, left the assets of the aviation company (which Gortion had purchased) at zero, hopped a freight for Peoria, saying: "Jeeze! . . . That society stuff was beginning to get on my nerves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Parachute | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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