Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every beard. Game score, as in Fives, was 21. The vogue of Beaver passed two years ago, but recently, on Long Island, a similar pastime started-the game of Babbitt. One drives the highroad, keeping a sharp eye out for Babbitts.* When a Babbitt is sighted, one points a finger at him, shouting "Babbitt." Babbitts travel together, and frequently whole games can be scored from a single car. Score is kept as in tennis- fifteen, thirty, forty, game...
...alone discouraged the imminent addresses of a young man in a Panama, who had been staring for fifteen minutes with a sort of scholarly zeal, as if, he seemed to say, her face reminded him of someone. As she passed through the ticket lines he turned again, pointed his finger, suddenly and rudely exclaimed: "Helen Wills...
Author Williamson, only 32, has already been hobo, sailor, sheepherder, circus hand, newspaper reporter, wrestling instructor, prison official (finger prints), social worker, Harvard M. A., professor, translator, research ethnologist and author of a first novel (Run Sheep Run) that was universally hailed as "impressive, fascinating, vigorous, sinister, virile, etc., etc." He was born of mixed Welsh†, French, Irish and Norwegian stock on an Indian reservation. The collection of novels he intends to write he calls "The American Panorama...
...that knowledge of drugs they substitute a thorough knowledge of anatomy and of manipulation, osteopathic therapy. The osteopathic idea is that the body will overcome disease of its own accord if all its parts are functioning normally. Abnormalities of joints, bones, muscles, tendons, nerves are "lesions." The osteopath, by finger surgery, finger technique, nuger treatment, by a kind of mighty massaging- removes these lesions, breaks up adhesions, gets lymphatic drainage. Regular physicians and surgeons recognize the value of such manipulation, deny that it is as efficacious as the osteopaths proclaim. R. B. Gilmour of Sioux City, Iowa, is the recently...
...Just keep your shirt on, and tell me where you got that amortization amendment," said Senator Norris, shaking his insurgent finger...