Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York. Approximately one movie a week; one dry cleaning yearly for each of two coats and twelve for dresses; four tooth brushes; eight haircuts; six finger waves; three permanents in two years; eight visits to swimming pools; 36 visits to bowling alleys; "candy, sodas, cigarets" 30? per week...
...blinding snow & wind that sometimes reached a velocity of 50 miles an hour the Spanish war suddenly burst into action last week at Teruel, tip of the long Rightist finger which points down from Aragon at Leftist Valencia. While the world awaited a Rightist drive, Leftist troops under General Sebastian Pozas took the offensive. Surging forward through a blizzard in a surprise attack, the Leftists avoided a frontal assault on Teruel itself, heavily fortified by the Rightists for over a year. Instead they sent from north & south two columns accompanied by tanks and planes to nip the line of communications...
Walt Disney wears the Hollywood uniform: lounge coats, open-throated shirts, fancy sweaters. His thick, dark brown hair, which dips to a widow's peak slightly less emphatic than Robert Taylor's, has a long top lock which Disney wraps around his finger while he talks. At a loss for words, he often resorts to pantomime. He works until six or seven o'clock every night, in busy times works round the clock. He drives his Packard roadster home to dinner, plays with his baby daughters, Diane Marie and Sharon Mae, and goes to bed. Hollywood hotspots...
Said the Duke of Portland's marriageable granddaughter, Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, who was observed to be wearing nothing at all last week on the third finger of her left hand, "I am sorry, I can say nothing...
...Light Co. Gifford Pinchot, elected Pennsylvania's Governor despite the "works" from Pennsylvania Power & Light, found a job for Mr. Beamish. As secretary of the Commonwealth, Mr. Beamish had plenty of opportunities to state his views about the public utilities. During the campaign of 1934 he wet his finger, held it up in the wind and hastily became a Democrat. So when Governor George Earle set up a new Public Utility Commission early this year there was no reason why Mr. Beamish should not be one of the commissioners...