Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sumptuous palace of a courtesan (Madame de Pompadour) the 13th President of France was inaugurated on Saturday the 13th last week, swore no oath, placed his finger tips upon no Bible...
...late in 1905 Elbert Henry Gary, board chairman of U. S. Steel Corp., set a well-manicured finger firmly down on a map of northern Indiana. Said he to his directors: "This will be our metropolis. We'll build near the railroad junction of Chicago where acres of land can be had for almost the asking, midway between the ore regions of the North and the coal lands of the South and East." The Steel directors nodded consent...
...photographers started after these ten men, in company with phonographers, artists, anatomists, physicians, psychologists, anthropologists, interviewers. When the specialists get through, society will have their detailed records. For each there will be still and moving pictures; talkies and phonograph records; sculptures of hands, face, bust and other body parts; finger prints; medical history; family case cards; minutiae of every sort which Dr. Charles Benedict Davenport has been accumulating in the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor...
...Leiva, not so badly hurt that he could not express himself freely, told newsmen: "It might have happened to anybody. But the Washington police force is the worst I have ever known. . . . One man [during the fight] thrust his hand into my face and I nearly bit his little finger...
...insisted. They lived in a confused menage near Central Park. He would come in at all hours, would sleep but three or four hours (when he was a child he reasoned that brief sleep was the essence of Napoleon's career). Nor did many know why the fingers of his left hand were stubby. When he was three, he rolled into a floor brazier of live coals. Before his mother could get to him his hand was a jelly. Later a country surgeon cleaned up the finger stumps, made the butts useful enough to hold test tubes and beer...