Word: fingered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tall, teacherish shamrock waver from Dublin did not rise to oppose the entry of Russia. He endorsed it but rose to champion the idea that the few small nations still opposed should be invited to air their views in open assembly. Shaking a bony finger at his pet aversion, British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, and at M. Barthou, the Free State's de Valera cried: "The whole question of procedure should be properly considered, instead of in hotel rooms. . . . What is it reasonable for Russia to expect? She naturally wants to assure herself before applying for membership that...
...Mason, Ohio, G. L. Gerard heard mountain fiddlers playing a tune from inside a rain spout on his barn. All over town tin roofs spat fire at the touch of a screwdriver, lights flashed on at 2 a. m. John La Mar, who sells melons, pointed an accusing finger at a steel tower which tapers 831 feet above the village, insisted: "I've watched clouds come rolling up until they reach that tower. Then they split in two and each part goes a different direction and we don't get a drop...
...meeting of NRA's Policy Board lately the NRAdministrator had accused Mr. Richberg of playing "fast and loose" with him. Fatigued almost to the breaking point, the doughty General had bellowed: "I expect complete loyalty from every one of you. And that means you"?pointing a finger at Acting General Counsel Blackwell Smith?"and you"? pointing at Economic Adviser Leon Henderson. Messrs. Smith and Henderson politely retorted that their resignations were already on their chief's desk...
President Roosevelt has learned that it is one thing to desire credit inflation and another to achieve it. For more than a year Jesse Jones shook a horrendous finger at the banks, accusing them of damming enormous reservoirs of potential credit. The bankers weakly replied that not even on the highways & byways could they find borrowers to whom anyone but a philanthropist would lend money. Wholly unconvinced, Congress authorized RFC and the Federal Reserve banks to make direct loans to industry (TIME, July 2). By last week the Federal Reserve had loaned a measly...
...priest. He admired the priest's pretty hat, his shiny jewelry. Could he play with them? The kindly-faced priest smiled assent. Small John Kennedy donned the red cloth biretta of a cardinal, jingled a golden cross on a massive chain, slipped a cameo ring on his big finger. Then John's father, New York's Representative Martin J. Kennedy, devout Roman Catholic, protested such impious play. But Alexis Henry Cardinal Lepicier said: "Why not? Nothing is more blessed than that which is touched by a child...