Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Creoles in the Debussy manner, gossiping women, fishwives taken rag and bone from Stravinsky. Critics damned it, called it dull, found the Mozart and the Schumann a little tiresome too. They blamed the first on the breathless pat-a-pat reading of Conductor Damrosch, the second on the frigid finger tips of Pianist Cortot. All praise went to two Debussy Nocturnes that came after intermission: Clouds moving slowly, solemnly, now white, now grey, now reflecting the pale splendor of a dying sun; Festivals with its wise laughter, frail and unearthly-and to the Meistersinger Overture that blew its virtues boldly...
Persons without children in school wondered what were the sentiments of people with children in school, who saw a despatch last week from Southshields, Eng., reporting that no girl or boy would be permitted to wear a finger ring in a Southshields classroom. Cause: a girl wore a ring to class, gazed at it, neglected her studies; other girls copied her; boys grimaced, whispered, copied...
...66th hour, the "twelve good men and true" with circles under their eyes, as gloomy as craters in the moon again walked into the courtroom. Harry Daugherty watched them with one eye, covered his other inflamed one with a handkerchief. Colonel Miller chewed gum. Mrs. Miller bit her finger nails. Judge Mack wearily asked them: "Have you arrived at a verdict, gentlemen...
...seems to know everything. This mysterious Mammy is Selina, famed San Francisco blackmailer, half Negro and half Sinclair. On her 17th birthday, Adrienne discovers the story of her parentage; meets the mighty Kajetan who promises her empires, leaves her with nothing. Then she finds a youth with burning finger tips. . . . "Did it matter whose feet pressed out the wine of life so long as it flowed? 'I'll go with you,' she said, 'but I won't marry you.'" The remainder of the story is an interesting but disappointing complication of beauty and sordidness...
...with a proud finger that the Administration pointed to a Senate which adopted† a resolution for U. S. entrance into the World Court. Reservations were attached. Nevertheless, all good nations were expected to be pleased at having the U. S. in the World Court under any conditions. Seven months passed. Liberia, Cuba, Greece, Uruguay opened their arms, welcomed the U. S. into the brotherhood. Other nations remained cool, indifferent. Meanwhile, at home, Senators began to find that their constituents were not pleased with the votes they had cast for the World Court. In April, Senator William B. McKinley...