Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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recently, while feeding her horse a lump of sugar, lost a $5,000 solitaire from her finger, which the horse swallowed. Scrapings from the manure pile for several weeks failed to reveal the ring. X-rays were taken which also failed to locate it. Full value has been paid by an insurance company which claims the horse at death since it is illegal to kill the animal without the owner's permission...
...coal mines owned by Republic, Youngstown and Bethlehem. The war which the Governors hoped to settle was getting bigger and uglier by the hour, yet up to them to settle it remained. For from the White House came no sign that Franklin Roosevelt would lift a Federal finger...
...each crate." that the Queen spider was named "Sara Bernhardt," that her consort, fearsome "Emile Zola," was a specimen of the famed "bird-hunting spiders of Surinam." When M. Grantaire tapped on one of her filaments, Reporter Paine's straight-faced account continued, "Sara" ran up his finger for a fly, after which "the startling pet tripped back indoors with the booty...
...that of a boy. It measured seven inches and had patches of infant's down on its torso. It lacked a face, had part of a brain. Its right foot had six webbed toe buds, its left foot four. Its arms, fastened to its sides, had webbed finger buds. Fingers and toes had rudiments of nails. As Barbara Stobie went to her bed in a ward Pathologist Warren Clair Hunter of the University of Oregon medical school took the monstrous fetus to his laboratory to learn what was inside (a three months job) and to guess...
...wrinkled neck, and then, to call attention to here irritation, rattles here program violently. None are bold enough to glance at their self-assumed chaperone. Instead, a youth in checkered brown pants, and passes judgement: "There, gentlement, is a beauty. Perfect form," Two others are quick to follow his finger: "Where is she, the one in the green coat?" "No, no, over there; sec the lady holding the dog." "She's TERRIBLE!" "The dog you fool; male or female, it's a first-class Irish setter...