Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though good, was not what he might have been. The most satisfactory figure in the film, to this reviewer's mind, was Hercules, a broken nervous wreck of a man, standing six-foot-six in bearskin and beard, holding his monstrous cub in his right paw, and biting the finger nail's of his left in panicky fear of a small chorine trundling a wooden sword in his direction...
...Industrial Recovery Administrator Johnson to get their work & wages code approved. Labor was pounding them hard for proposing to pay their employes too little ($10-$11 per week), work them too long (40 hours per week). Even the President of the U. S. last May had pointed a damning finger at them for using children in their mills. Administrator Johnson bluntly suggested that it might be a good thing specifically to outlaw child labor in the cotton code. At first the manufacturers quibbled on the ground that their minimum wage proposal would make child employment uneconomic. But that night they...
...gangster that big gangsters mortally fear. He was out to make his reputation as a killer, and he figured that the ratio of his own importance would increase with the importance of the criminals he killed. He had leaders like Owney Madden quite nervous until two men put the finger on him in a telephone booth last winter...
...Museum walked none other than James Ramsay MacDonald, president of the Conference. To the Press it was an unexpected honor. But Scot MacDonald quickly made it plain that he had come not to honor the Press but to scold it. Calling the reporters around him, Mr. MacDonald wagged his finger at them and began...
...roared names, weights, decisions, to the crowd. He had got soaked when showers fell during the matches. He sank into a troubled sleep. Before daylight he woke, blinked into the darkness, tried to turn over, made the terrifying discovery that he could not move so much as a finger...