Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reckless grasping after life or what bore the semblance and wore the red flower of life, careless whether-nay, even glad if its heart were poisoned. I took-O sweet and noble soul, this will pain you cruelly, but I must tell it-I took the ring from my finger, for it burnt my flesh with its impossible summons and its intolerable reproach." Three weeks later he wrote that he thought he would soon be able to get it back...
...skirts of the Imperial Victoria will swish and the unctuous tones of Disraeli will whisper in the council chambers as Britain girds its loins to once again resume the "white man's burden." Gouty lords and Cockney navvies, with tongue in ruddy British cheek and sturdy British finger crossed, will cheer King and Empire as the British Army arrives in Addis Ababa to save the black man from himself and to collect the taxes. England will self-sacrificingly exploit the natural resources of the country and grant the natives splendid positions paying as high...
...life endangered on scores of landing fields, has had every move even on his wedding trip watched by news spies, has been forced to his wits' end to circumvent photographers who honor no plea for a second son after one feels the first has had 'the finger' put on him by undue publicity-unless one has had just a taste of Colonel Lindbergh's experience with a press that respects no law and knows no decency-it may not be possible to understand that this is a retreat after repeated defeats by unfair odds...
...that she had always intended to retire when she was 45, that she is now 48, but that she stayed on to help the Opera through its financial crisis. As a director on the board and a member of the new management committee she will continue to have a finger in the operatic...
Like many a diseuse, Sarah Osnath-Halevy gained telling effects with a .shrug of a shoulder, a lift of an eye. More marvelous, though, was what she could suggest with her long, slim hands alone. Each finger seemed to have a definite part, each pose its own particular beauty. That such hands should have washed dishes and scrubbed floors seemed almost incredible. But it is a fact that Sarah Osnath-Halevy was a domestic servant before she made her mark as an interpreter of songs. Her family, driven out by Arabs, left Yemen when she was 4. On the long...