Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three Texas officers. Sheriff Jordon of Bienville Parish and a deputy. There they met two people for whom Captain Hamer had been look-ing for the last six months. One was a red-haired Dallas girl whose maiden name was Bonnie Parker. Her distinguishing characteristics were a lightning trigger finger, a fondness for cigars, and a heart bearing the name "Roy" tattooed on her thigh. Roy Thornton was the name of her husband, but since he began serving a long sentence at Houston, Tex., her companion has been the other person for whom Captain Hamer was looking-Clyde Barrow. Clyde...
...government by the League of Nations last week. The pleasant fields of Bulgaria blush with roses from which perfume manufacturers extract essential oil, Bulgaria's best known product. Not so well known is another Bulgarian industry. League investigators of the international narcotic trade have often pointed an accusing finger at Bulgaria as one of the most important manufacturing sources of illegal opium and heroin. Last week came another League report on opium, and its charges against Bulgaria were stronger. Stuart J. Fuller of the U. S. revealed that in 1933 Bulgaria imported enough acetic acid anhydride to manufacture...
...When the Magazine he loved to talk about starting finally came to the point of starting, he let it fizzle out in a gargantuan defeatist joke. Though he loved the girl he might have had for the asking and knew she was headed for disaster, he never lifted a finger to save her. These and other characters stand out from the energetic flow of Author Slesinger's narrative, but what makes the book both entertaining and impressive are its gurgling eddies of talk, its glittering shallows and broken rapids...
...jampacked with students of Ohio's Kent State College up to the stage where Dancer Ted Shawn with his group was miming the end of his interpretation of John Brown. A few snickers followed. Dancer Shawn played on until the last curtain fell. Then he raised a long finger to hush the applause, folded his arms and spoke: "We've played before audiences in New York and Boston, we've played before the hillbillies of the Carolinas and the cowboys of Texas, but this is the most ill-bred and ill-mannered audience to which...
...that history is repeating itself in a strangely short time. The League of Nations will consider, delay, expostulate, threaten, be extremely firm, and Japan will emerge with what she desires. It has been said that Wilson, in his notes to Germany, first shook his fist, and then shook his finger. The League is at least consistent in following the example of its creator. The United States will probably be firm in its traditional policy of friendship toward China; this moral backing will doubtless be highly comforting to China. But unless some Power or group of states is prepared to fight...