Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clears it out with an elaborate, witty, rhymed, five-part letter to hyper-aristocratic English Poet Lord Byron. In this sophisticated, not entirely mock-serious composition, Poet Auden confides his thoughts about English literature in general, about his own life and times in particular, points a pretty straight finger at the hot spot on which up-to-the-minute literates fry perforce. His view of his fellow poets is neither encouraging nor hopeless : . . . many are in tears...
...Candid camera shots at Brussels showed last week (see cut) that British Foreign Secretary Eden elevates his teacup so close to his face that it almost covers his nose, extends his fifth finger to the full; while Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff keeps his cup nearly level, protrudes his lips toward it, bending his head and sucking in the tea. Long-reach cookie snatching, by delegates leaning across in front of other delegates who already had their cookies and kept standing close to the table, was also in order at Brussels...
...tendency of the Freshman Class to point a finger of ridicule at anyone who "goes to see the teacher" about something that is not made wholly clear shows a childishness that should have been discarded in high school. When 120 Freshmen volunteered to forward the work of research by undergoing brain tests, it was instantly assumed that these men were freaks of some sort, and life was made unpleasant for many of them...
...apparently travelled from afar to see, not Harvard, but the cadets in action against Harvard. The larger of the two ladies had taken it upon herself to be a guide for all those within shouting distance, for, with a fine combination of emphasis and scorn, she pointed a finger at the gaunt bulk of Sever standing solemnly, patiently, in the background...
...Star's weak 80,000 circulation has been pushed to 135,000. Previously publisher of the strong little Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph which has been in his family 101 years, Dave Merwin made a place for the Star in Minneapolis largely by pointing his editorial finger at civic corruption. In two years the Star outstripped the circulation of its two evening rivals...