Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...self-consciousness in public. A "durbar" of the Al Malaikah Temple Shrine, of which he is an enthusiastic member, popped him into print again. Cavorting with 35,000 fezzed brethren in a ''Streets of Delhi" scene. Shriner Gettle took one "nautch girl" on his knee, wiggled a finger at another while photographers took his picture. Emporia's Editor William Allen White told the graduating class of the University of Kansas: "We have dumped at the portals of your life one of the most elaborate metallic scrap heaps that the history of civilization has recorded. A gaudy bauble...
...Harvard's ex-Big League Coach Injuries, however, have provided more troubles. Craig Woodruff, the wise-cracking short stop, will be out of the game because of a back injury. Johny Fitzpatrick will take his place at short. The other recent causality, Cather Dick Maguire, who suffered a split finger in the Tufts game on Saturday, is expected to be on deck this afternoon. He is one of the better laddies that have squatted behind a Harvard plate and his pegs to second would be severely missed...
...little man in black might have to say, Reds started 20 fist fights in 20 different parts of Olympia. These were broken up by Fascist "flying squads" who squelched male hecklers but stood back before women disturbers until female Fascist squelchers could rush in. As they dug in with finger nails and hair pulling, ladies in the audience paled, tugged at their escort's arms, insisted on being taken home. Suddenly from the steel rafters of Olympia, more than 50 feet above Sir Oswald, daring antiFascists set up a jeering...
George Cukor has just returned from England. Now this in itself is not a remarkable fact, but in this instance George has been in the tight little isle with a very definite purpose in mind. To lay the finger on the spot, Hollywood has decided that David Copperfield is a good subject for macoration, and Mr. Cuker has been in England getting local color with the aid of a Baedeker's Guide...
...House restaurant last week Richard Lawson and Walter Roberts engaged in argument. Like shells from a field gun a bottle of catsup and a bottle of Worcestershire sauce catapulted across the room and burst. Three glasses and a finger bowl were shattered by the explosion. Then Headwaiter Roberts discharged Waiter Lawson...