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Word: fingered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last season, Hollywood had no production finger in any important Broadway pie. But unlike last season, it paid some fancy prices for hits. Abe Lincoln in Illinois was sold to Max Gordon Plays & Pictures Co. Inc. on a cash and royalty basis that may come to over $300,000, set a record. The American Way was sold to Gordon for $250,000. Setting a precedent, The Philadelphia Story was sold to Katharine Hepburn (its star) before it ever opened on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Cash Register | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Leading the ten hit attack, Art Johns and Lupe Lupien each nicked the Boston University finger, Braun, for a single and a double in four trips to the plate. Rud Hoye connected for three timely bingles in six times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Batters Subdue Terrier Nine Behind Pitching of Schwede, Brackett | 5/18/1939 | See Source »

...draft of cold air, a warm drink, or even gentle stroking of a finger on a "trigger" spot may bring on an attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B1 for Tic | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Though this plot gives the film an unfair advantage over sentimental audiences, and Actress Davis plucks every heartstring she can lay a finger on, under Edmund Goulding's delicate, direction she makes Dark Victory moving but not morbid. The picture allows pretty, able newcomer Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights) to put a shapely foot forward, gives Humphrey Bogart, as an Irish groom who loves Judith for her breeding, a chance to act without a gun up his sleeve. Memorable sequence: Judith trying to put her horse over a jump on a morning when her hangover is worse than usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...other circuits) which control his eleven motors by remote control. He can walk forward or backward, with a peculiar limp (only one leg bends at the knee and both huge feet are equipped with rollers). He can salute with either hand. He can count up to ten on his fingers, bending each finger individually. By means of photoelectric cells equipped with color filters, he can tell red from green. He can talk and sing (by voice recordings played through an amplifier). He can suck smoke from a cigaret placed in his mouth, and exhale through his nostrils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Talents | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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