Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody could put his finger on a dollar of it, but ever since the late Huey P. Long rose to power there has been persistent talk of the rich graft which his Louisiana political machine was supposed to be pocketing. Meantime the Federal Government has harried individual Longsters with one of the most spirited income tax investigations on record. Result was indictment last year of eight Long followers for income tax evasion. Last spring the Government warmed up with State Representative Joe Fisher, a petty henchman, put him in the penitentiary for 18 months. Last week it went...
Admitting with a cynicism which one would think too callous even for Gallic minds, that the League of Nations has never been more than a stooge for her own European machinations, France is unwilling to lift even one tapering Parisian finger to raise it out of a chaos in which slie has no interest. Now that the League has done its dirty work, France finds herself in the embarrassing position of the housewife who must once and for all get rid of an old servant without having the neighbors accuse her too loudly of cruelty and ingratitude...
...Indian bronze statue, the most valuable object in the exhibit. Another bronze, which is mounted on a pedestal near the entrance, symbolizes the incarnation of Buddah. Every line of his face, from his furrowed brow to the tip of his pointed chin which is couched between thumb and fore-finger, helps to form an expression of deep meditation...
...seems that Mr. Average Citizen had a law suit on his hands. While pursuing his occupation as a drainlayer last spring, his finger was bitten by a horse attached to a Whiting's milk fruck. The damage was small but the mental anguish was so great that the legal profession had been unable to capitalize fully...
Crossing a Swedish bog during an elk-hunt, a royal Swedish horse lost its footing, sank, threw 77-year-old King Gustav V. Pulled out of the bog, His Majesty sucked a bruised finger, quipped "When one is young these things don't matter." William Edward Dodd, U. S. Ambassador to Germany, sent by airplane from Berlin to Moscow a package of hominy grits for silver-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois recuperating from pneumonia...