Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since last spring when a Berkeley, Calif, surgeon sawed two holes in her skull "to let out the pain," as she understood the purpose of the operation, Dema Dunlap, 23, a buxom, introspective epileptic, had an irresistible compulsion to finger her scalp where it lay sewn over the trephine holes. The soft spots, yielding under pressure of her finger tips, felt like the germinal depressions of a coconut...
...warring nations; and perhaps most important, the provision that all American claims to any materials whatsoever, intended for a belligerent country, must be relinquished before they leave an American port. The neutrality bill fits the pressing demand for a strictly defined policy, permitting the President to stick his finger in the stew only to proclaim a "state of war" and possibly add to the embargo list...
...brother-in-law assiduously through the miles-long corridors of the late Emperor Franz Josef's Schonbrunn Palace. In its theatre a party of giggling girls began-throwing kisses at the Duke of Windsor and he spent some time blowing kisses back at them with a curious two-finger gesture. There was no scrap of evidence, plenty of rumor that the Princess Royal and Harewood, who was recently appointed an Aide de Camp to new King George, had come to discuss the Duke of Windsor's finances. Bills for debts he contracted as King are being rapidly settled...
...government, on a scale surpassing any proposal of reform before, is suggested by Mr. Roosevelt, in favoring the report of the Brownlow Committee on Public Administration. He plans to absorb 100 commissions, bureaus, and agencies into twelve departments, including two new cabinet posts, so that he may keep his finger on all with greater ease. The White House management will be enlarged by six executive assistants, with "a passion for anonymity"; from top to bottom federal personnel will go under civil service. All these suggestions tend to center power in the President, as the channels of authority to the twelve...
...pair smiled for newsphotographers, Miss Slye insisting, "I won't sit any closer. I don't like him well enough." They then strolled down the boardwalk to pledge loud co-operation in cocktails. Roared Miss Slye, 57, wagging a finger: "Clarence Cook Little, you're a big handsome numskull." Roared Dr. Little, 48: "You're not a geneticist, Maude Slye." Cancer Detector- Dr. Walter Schiller of the University of Vienna, offered a simple new way of determining whether or not a woman has cancer of the cervix...