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Word: fingered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atchafalaya and the Mississippi flow southward and (very roughly) parallel, and between these two rivers is a long narrow strip of land?a sort of finger of dry territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Flood Continued | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...active part in its affairs, but evidently all petty questions of nationalism and political policy are to be thrown over in loyalty to the larger cause of women's rights. It makes no difference what the League is or does so long as the egregious female has her finger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUX FEMINA FACTI | 5/24/1927 | See Source »

...slavery speaker. Learning that "Pinky's" owner valued her at $900, Beecher staged the "auction," raised $1,100 in excess of the amount needed. One of his hearers, Authoress Rose Terry, put a ring in the collection plate. Dramatic, Dr. Beecher slipped the ring on Pinky's finger, cried: "With this ring I thee wed - to freedom!" After her freedom had been purchased, "Pinky" went to live with a Brooklyn family, was re-named Rose Ward, dropped from the public eye. Later she went to Washington, graduated from Howard University (Negro), taught school. In 1882 she married James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Again: Pinky | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...White House office one morning last week sat President Coolidge, his finger hovering over a button. The clock reached 9:30. The President pushed the button. Straightway started, in distant Toledo, the presses of the new Toledo Blade newspaper plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: May 16, 1927 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...that he vary his colors. He -'likes to wear double-breasted coats. His trousers have no cuffs. He never wears checks, is not fond of striped effects, shuns soft collars, prefers 'black footgear to brown, high to low. He wears no jewelry save a ring (left third finger). No fop, the President disturbed the White House valet by putting three cigars in the pocket of his formal evening clothes. The valet maintained that more than two cigars made a bulge in the pocket. The President answered that less than three cigars would not carry him through a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

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