Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garnet de Bal (Studios Francois I) is as expertly designed and executed a piece of dramatic tapestry as the cinema has woven in many a year. Its pat pattern follows the musing finger of a French widow (Marie Bell) as she traces over the names on the program of her first ball, nearly 20 years ago, then sets out to check up on these beaux of yesteryear...
...century Russian Gregor Piatigorsky, successful cellists have been men of brawn. Lesser cellists, like Composer Jacques Offenbach, Composer Victor Herbert, and Conductor Arturo Toscanini, have often become famous for other things than cello playing. But the greatest cellists have usually spent a whole lifetime taming the thick strings and finger-defying dimensions of their instruments. Such were France's owl-faced Jean Louis Duport (1749-1819), Germany's muscular Bernhard Romberg (1767-1841), Russia's handsome, dashing Charles Davidov (1838-89), bearded Alsatian Hugo Becker (1767-1841), and 78-year-old Saxon Julius Klengel...
...Francisco, who is to the West's banking what the Rockies are to its topography. Mr. Giannini's Transamerica Corp., once the biggest bank holding company in the world, is now being transformed into an investment trust because A. P. doesn't have to wet his finger more than once to see which way the wind blows. A. P.'s Bank of America has 492 branches in California. His First National Bank of Oregon has 42, First National of Nevada has twelve. There is a Giannini banking chain starting in Washington...
Taking advantage of yesterday's rain Coach Ducky Waters' finger bowling squad held the first scrimmage of the season in the Homer Q. Puddle Memorial Bowl in preparation for the approaching contest with the Yale dunkers. The large turnout of 100 men boded well for a successful season...
Headed by captain Swisher Digit the team went thru a long drill which included scooping scotch and sodas out of highball glasses. Commenting on this, Coach Waters explained, "the scotch being heavier than water strengthens the finger muscles, and the depth of the glasses forces the boys to get their scoop strokes lower, an essential fundamental for high scoring...