Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while, but, seen it develops that she has a most insolent pup of a jilted flance; a hatchet-faced companion; a stern, outraged mother whose dignity is regal; an oily detective who shadows her every step; and, back in Arizona, a cattle-king father with a fidgetty trigger finger...
...Manhattan's handsome Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, many a Catholic went last week to venerate the church's latest acquisition. Exposed during a solemn novena was a gilded silver reliquary containing a finger joint of St. Vincent Ferrer-one of the largest major relics extant of a man who was one of the greatest evangelists of all time. Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419), of knightly Spanish birth, belonged to the Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans). For 50 years he lived austerely, declined all honors. With middle age came Vincent Ferrer's renown as a wonder worker...
...First National Bank have been having trouble with their vault. To service their equipment, they summoned Mr. Goodenough, of Covington's Mosler Lock Co. To Chicago, to Manhattan, even to Cuba, Locksmith Goodenough has traveled, has watched jammed doors swing open at the touch of his skilled fingers. While on his way to Fairbanks he stopped off at Helena, Montana, worked on the balky lock of a vault in the Federal Reserve Bank. No locksmith west of the Mississippi had been able to open the door, which had been jarred by last autumn's earthquake. When Locksmith Goodenough...
...morale of the whole Federal personnel has been broken; no one knows at whom the finger of the genial and assiduous Mr. Farley will point next. The achievement of taking the civil service out of politics and professionalizing it, won laboriously over half a century, has during the last three years to a large extent been thrown away...
...answer is Yes! Indeed she does notice! She never fails to remark unkempt finger-nails, baggy trousers, or discords in color combinations. She is just as critical of the college man's shortcomings as he is of her periodical flights into the nightmares of fad-land...