Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Time became a jumbled cinema- weird faces, threats, and curses . . . long drives by night in the sedan. She was always bound and gagged. Her captors burned her fingers with cigars to make her help them get the ransom. If she did not . . . Steve and his fellow rogue murmured apart, spoke of selling her to a man named Felipe. They cut off her hair, threatened to cut off a scarred finger and send it to her mother. "I prayed constantly and talked to them of God. I'll bet they were tired of hearing my preaching. . . ." Then the cabin, somewhere...
...marbled coolness thinking of the good times they are missing or a gymnasium in which they can find good wholesome exercise strengthening their bodies and fitting themselves for the battle of life? And the boys in France, sleeping their last--would they be more pleased to have an aspiring finger pointing toward heaven in memory of their noble exploits, or to know that, inspired by those exploits, men were being strengthened in body and health and fitted for the work of establishing democracy on earth...
...must raise a finger of score at those who dislike the sketch of the new chapel. They certainly do not know their architecture. And if anything will ever penetrate the heavens in search of a just creator the steeple on the new chapel certainly will. It will be one more point of interest beside the glass flowers...
...raised is opposed by certain crass souls so sunk in materialism that they prefer the flesh pots to the beauty of tranquil worship in cool marble halls. And think of the poor boys sleeping their last sleep in France--what could be more suitable than this aspiring, finger pointing toward Heaven in perpetual memory of their noble exploits? And what is wrong with the present gymnasium besides the fact that it is old and-considerably infested with the smallest of God's creatures. After all, should God be sacrificed because of a few bugs...
Britons rebuked U. S. citizens who pointed at Lord Lloyd last week the finger of reproof, by recalling the tactics of President Roosevelt with respect to the Panama Canal, certainly of no more importance to the U. S. than are Suez and the Sudan to Britain...