Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While an ardent defender of the old American game, I will admit that I still bear a slight scar on my face from finger nails used under water and unseen by the referee, and I also admit to having sinus trouble ten years after the old game fell into disrepute...
...Herald Tribune's editorial demonstrated that the sensational press is growing more sensational, it also demonstrated that the conservative press is growing more conservative. In an earlier, lustier day, when the two extremities were not so far apart, a bombastic editorial writer would have shaken an accusing finger at his neighbors with the cry of "Murderers!"; would at least have named the papers from which he was quoting...
...longer can the seasoned ballyhoo man in the passing charabane jerk a grimed finger at the old house, and in condescending monotone comment on Noo Yawk's mystery house, home of Ella Wendel, richest unmarried dame the country's got. The public has laughed for the last time at the dying Wendels; for Ella's nearest of kin is Tobey, the poodle...
...with his reach and the play regrettably wanders far a field into the less stimulating realm of force. The perennial vivacity of Helen Hayes does much to propel a vehicle that in spots lacks lubrication, and Henry Stephenson gives the wheels of comedy many a timely flick of the finger...
Sirs: Your magazine deserves everything good which has been said of it. BUT-you have certainly fallen off a bit in this week's issue. Imagine a grown-up magazine devoting a whole column to ''finger counting"-the lowest form of human amusement. Incredible! What if Senor Calles' baby appeared rather suddenly-what if a flock of ''old ladies of both sexes" write you about it-aren't you BIG enough to say nothing? Grow up! FRANK J. TONIS...