Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long moment the Abbe Haegy hesitated. He owns several newspapers whose policy looks toward the eventual autonomy of Alsace. He had brought this suit against Le Journal of Paris for libelously aspersing his patriotism as an Alsatian. Now this French lawyer was wagging a hypnotic finger and demanding that the Abbe declare himself on the side of France, which now holds Alsace-Lorraine...
...Look at me! [finger wagging), look into the eyes of a Frenchman! [wagging more slowly] Will you not shout...
Outside Philadelphia, Mary Gilmore, 7, and her brother James, 5, plucked flowers, tugged at a strong "root." Out from the soft soil came a woman's stiff finger. The children pulled harder and dragged forth the finger's hand and the forearm, a right one, to which the hand belonged. There was no body. Affrighted the children's parents summoned authorities, who smelled the medical laboratory solution used to pickle anatomical specimens and then decided that frolicsome medical students had "planted" the remnant to hoax Philadelphia police...
Queen Mary did not seem embarrassed or say, "Shh!" Her face lighted, she nodded, and with a royal finger discreetly indicated to Sir James a door. He should go through, and turn thus and thus. Then he would find Nurse Knight and should tell her by the Queen-Empress' command to show him the Sleeping Princess...
...possible force by treating it in natural minutiae instead of as a theme. To cut a girl's birth pains, a granny lays a whetted axe beside a plowshare under the bed. The moon's phases are watched and calculated for everything from corn-planting to paring finger nails. Good manners are the highest plantation criterion: it is bad manners to dislike soap and water, to have lice or warts, to horselaugh right in somebody's face, to have sooty feet. Never was a book more bubbling with conversation. Joy and sorrow, large matters and small...