Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They are the five-finger exercises of art. They sharpen the artist's tools so that he can more effectively put over his message, for all art has a message even though the artist may not be able to put it into words...
...Stone (Richard Cromwell) is the tenderfoot son of the stern regimental commander (Sir Guy Standing). The three engage in sport and pleasant banter until a rascally potentate kidnaps young Stone and the other two attempt to rescue him. When the potentate puts lighted bamboo splinters under McGregor's finger nails, he makes a face but tells no secrets. Neither does Forsythe, but flabby Stone despicably reveals the whereabouts of a British ammunition train. The result is a terrific battle in which McGregor dies, Forsythe gets wounded and young Stone redeems himself...
...unimpressive figure, seemed all forehead and shirt front. But his Bach was anything but dull. The many pianists who heard him marveled at the design of each phrase, the variety and vitality which suffused everything he played. Laymen forgot that they had ever associated Bach with their youthful five-finger exercises and the stern ticking of a metronome...
...Until a year ago, I would have been willing to endorse their statement," exclaimed Professor Gottwald Schwarz, University of Vienna's longtime radiologist. ". . . But accidentally I lately suffered a needle prick of the nail cuticle of my left index finger. This trifling injury gradually developed into an ulcer which today, after the lapse of one year, still does not show the least tendency toward healing." Day & night Professor Schwarz asks himself: "Have I a cancer? Should I have the finger...
Black and swollen, one morning, was the right little finger of Cinemactor Warner Baxter. By noon his right hand and arm were throbbing painfully. They, too, were black and swollen before a doctor determined that a Black Widow spider had bitten Baxter while he slept...