Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked for a time as if the U. S. Press might not be allowed to print this most familiar form of human interest feature. After the Derby of 1931, when more stories about lottery winners burgeoned in the newspapers. Republican Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown pointed a monitory finger at a Federal statute which makes lottery information unmailable, under penalty of $1,000 fine and two years imprisonment. Press Associations, always quick to bow to Washington orders, promptly ceased handling lottery news. In November, the New York Dally News defiantly printed the names of ticket holders in a lottery...
Despite his enthusiasm for the vigorous pioneer life which continually comes to the fore in descriptions such as that of Lewis as a "youthful captain. . . . . straight as a white oak. . . . . and steady of eye and trigger-finger", Mr. Wilson must have soon learned why others had not attempted to write a biography of his chosen hero. Lewis was far from being an outstanding man and except for his leadership of the Expedition of Discovery (whose success may with greater justice be attributed to William Clark, the second in command) which he received through the patronage of Thomas Jefferson...
...spin to get the feel of the water at flood tide. Precedent was broken when they went up to the course at Putney a week earlier than usual, a week ahead of Cambridge. Then bad luck began to break. Snow and biting cold set in. No. 7 poisoned his finger. No. 6 came down with influenza. A new man was seated at bow a week before the race. But these were not the least of Oxford's misfortunes. On race day last week, Cambridge won the toss for lanes, chose the wind-sheltered Surrey side of the river...
...Hurst call her the most violent of domesticated female writers, say that her characters are not only stuffed but vulgar nonsense, that their actions are like the sputtering of a string of sausages in a frying pan. Her defenders reply that she has more zest in her capable little finger than there is in the ineffective fists of all her highbrow critics. Critics pay little attention to Fannie Hurst, but plain readers have made her one of the most popular dishes on the counter. Anitra's Dance tells of a wild household of hyphenated Americans noisily existing on Manhattan...
...young man graced with personal at- traction, a propensity to love, and a desire to reach the heights on someone's else endeavors. He rambles through his part with a rhythmic ease that is restful to watch, now calling up a grimace, now elevating his voice, now twitching a finger or two. His is the center role, and he builds it up with a sort of vacillating adroitness--ever spurred on by vain ambition and pride, ever retarded by conceit and a weakness for cards--until the very shabbiness of the plot finally at the end wears through its dexterously...