Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Julius Caesar gave to the world his version of a calendar; Gregory emended it and attached to it his name; now the United States Congress, not desiring to be outdone, intends also to have a finger...
...example: "As I was leisurely pursuing my business, yesterday, in Wall Street . . . James Watson Webb came up to me . . . commenced fighting with a species of brutal and demoniac desperation characteristic of a fury. My damage is a scratch, about three quarters of an inch in length, on the third finger of the left hand . . . and three buttons torn from my vest, which any tailor will reinstate for a sixpence. His loss is a rent from top to bottom of a very beautiful black coat, which cost the ruffian $40, and a blow in the face, which may have knocked down...
Harvard, however, has been too consistently free from major injury of late years, and strikingly so in the season just passed, to owe her good fortune to the mere workings of chance. Few are the squads that can boast a broken finger as the most serious accident to any member during a whole season's play. But it is just this result which the Harvard system of training is designed to produce. Though the ninety minute practice established this fall contrasts sharply with the extended arc-lit sessions common in other institutions, the Harvard team was more successful than...
Thenceforward the story proceeds to get Sergey McTavish into more and more trouble. Finally he rescues an American called up before a shrewd Soviet Judge who has a parrot. Each prisoner must poke his forefinger into the parrot's cage. If parrot bites finger, the sentence is Death. Smart Sergey McTavish saves the American's neck by rubbing garlic on his finger, causing parrot to cringe, not bite...
...morning of Dec. 17, 1903. The Wrights with their biplane and a few helpers were on a knoll. Dismally nearby was a horse and wagon. A man sat on the wagon seat, leaning patiently forward, his hands hanging loosely between his knees, the reins looped over a crooked finger. He was a native undertaker...