Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homeruns, surpassed Gehrig's batting average .342 to .340. The idol of Detroit schoolchildren, he is approved by baseball-minded Jewish matrons because he is handsome, frisky and religiously orthodox. He has invented his own glove, which is larger than standard, with webbing between thumb and index finger. He makes $7,000 a year, prefers not to play on Yom Kippur. Next week, his well-to-do father, president of the Acme & Textile Shrinking Works, plans to order $500 worth of World Series tickets...
...punched nose will usually stop bleeding if it is held between thumb and finger for a few moments, if cold water is sloshed into the face, if something cold is pressed against the back of the neck...
...made since becoming a star last winter. In the course of her impersonation Shirley Temple sings two songs (Animal Crackers in My Soup, When I Grow Up), impersonates Whistler's mother, rides piggyback, does a solo tap-dance on a piano top, learns how to use a finger bowl. Her bridge work, replacing a baby tooth lost last spring, is unnoticeable...
...Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe and Nagasaki Japanese antiquaries and curio dealers have come to know a U. S. citizen with white hair and glittering spectacles who approaches them smiling politely, holds his finger tips close together and cries over & over "Chiisai! Chiisai! Small! Small!" It is Jules Charbneau of Mount Clemens, Mich, on one of his round-the-world trips searching for minuscule knickknacks. Many collections of little things, from the elder J. P. Morgan's miniatures to Queen Mary's doll house, are better known and of greater artistic worth, but none is larger than the Jules Charbneau...
...Chicago Press, once over the difficulty of Bauer's dreadful injury by calling it variously "penknife mutilation," "sex-operation," "rude emasculation," straightway pointed "The Finger of Suspicion" at Mandeville Zenge...