Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the Dutch boy at the pierced dike, the professor stuck his finger in the hole. As an excited assistant stitched up the hole, Professor Sauerbruch slowly withdrew his finger-plug, until all was laced tight, like a football. The girl got well...
...failed to produce results. Then suddenly Momotombo blew off. Wily Philippe Bunau-Varilla, French agent, sent a Nicaraguan postage stamp to each & every member of Congress. Up in the Senate rose Ohio's eloquent Marcus Alonzo Hanna who had not forgotten the $250,000 campaign promise. Between thumb & finger, high over his head, he brandished his stamp. Upon it was pictured smoking Momotombo. Senator Hanna sonorously asked his colleagues if they would be so foolish as to build a canal in the shadow of this volcano. Startled, frightened, they bolted the Nicaraguan plan. Theodore Roosevelt's 50-mile...
...hook, with it knocked out 22 opponents, and won the decision from Light Heavyweight Champion Mike McTigue. Never a good boxer. Berlenbach was badly beaten by Jack Delaney five years ago (TIME, July 26. 1926). For his fight with Delaney, Berlenbach received $125,000. For knocking out dusky Six-Finger Eddie Clark last week, he got $40. Critics agreed, after watching his ring tactics (more awkward than ever) and his wild left hook (no longer dangerous), that he was unlikely to come far back. Still, they wrote about him. And he got a contract to fight again, this time...
...Finger Points (First National). Based on last summer's murder of Alfred "Jake" Lingle, racketeer-reporter for the Chicago Tribune, this picture presents Richard Barthelmess as a cool but callow newshawk who grows rich by blackmailing gangsters. Disappointed in the rewards consequent upon his first scoop, the reporter offers to conceal further news of illegal enterprises if their promoters share the profits with him. When another reporter gets the story of a gangland gambling layout, gangsters blame the racketeer-reporter, perforate him. Routine exaggerations?of a hardboiled city editor, a thundering "Big Guy''?combine to make The Finger Points...
...tutor while playing her first lead eight years ago, Fay Wray has since distinguished herself by extreme versatility in incongruous roles. Mauritz Stiller gave her a leading part in Street of Sin. Later she was billed with Gary Cooper as one of "Paramount's Glorious Young Lovers." In The Finger Points (see above) Actress Wray impersonates a sweetly scrupulous girl reporter...