Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CHARLES J. FINGER, according to Lewis Gannett, has "a gusto and zest for the good things of life." Whether or not that has anything to do with his having seven children, have more than a little to do with Charles J. Finger and his literary work. It was they who moved him to write the host of juvenile stories which won him some reputation as an author; and now, because he thinks it's awfully nice to read to the kiddies round the fireside on a cold winter's night, he has written a hodge-podge mumbledy-jumbledy guide...
Dear Sir: . . . My organist insists upon dragging his fingers over four or five keys, like an upward run, at least twice in each hymn stanza. He will not play the harmony as is, but manufactures harmonies of his own, with many fancy chromatic chords. His harmony is always thin, and lacking the power of the original as given in the hymn book. . . . He uses his tremolo too much, and drives everybody nearly to tears by his abuse of the chimes. Now he insists upon adding a Vox Humana stop to the organ. If I chant the Communion Service...
...appeared, in varying forms, from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, everywhere with a local colour of its own. Scarcely less widespread was the story that Virgil had devised an ingenious lie detector, the bocca della verita, in the form of an animal's head which bit off the finger of anyone guilty of falsehood...
...question, and I doubt if Lindbergh would question, the fact that the crass vulgarities of Nemo and his type are true reflections of character. Even if addled adolescents were not so noisily boastful about their Scollay Square standards, the same would be as obvious as dirty finger nails. No one disputes their preference for bawds, flasks and vacuums. It is easy to believe that their taste is genuine. By the same token one can readily admit the looseness of their code of business ethics. If they were on the other end of a Government contract or any other contract, they...
...informer, worms his way into the secret councils of a radical society. Politician Gurau allows himself to be persuaded by Oilman Sammécaud that being given control of a newspaper is not bribery. His mistress, Germaine, gets further entangled in the market. Realtor Haverkamp begins to get his finger in some real pies. The liberals at Sampeyre's salon talk gloomily of impending...