Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brutal vulgarity of the modern young bloods and contrasting it with the traditional wisdom and courtesy of the old generation, Author Macdonell's good nature breaks down into invective or falters into sentimentality. But most of the time he is content to point a blunt and sudden finger, raise a hearty laugh...
...neither seen him killed nor dead; but believed the report to be true. Then Byzan and the President threw their arms about each other's neck and wept aloud; like two forlorn babies. But after a moment, Byzan pushed Machado away from him, and pointing his finger at him, exclaimed, "Gerhardo, all the world will blame you for his death!" Machado replied...
...electoral adviser to the Nicaraguan Government. He has been called "the best known North American in Central and South America." though Princeton's Dr. Edwin Walter Kemmerer, currency adviser to 13 nations, might well dispute this title. Nicaraguans remember how, to prevent repeating, Dr. Dodds caused the finger of every voting Nicaraguan to be dipped in a bowl of mercurochrome at the polls...
...Morgan & Co.'s business depends on all of its parts together. The composite is the source of Morgan's power, the basis of honest alarms about the too great concentration of financial and social power, and the reason why investigators have so much difficulty in putting their finger on what they complain of. The success of its loans may be insured by its intimacy with corporations for whom it has floated securities. Its ability to make large loans brings it security business. Its prestige brings it the cream of financial business. Having the cream, its prestige and influence...
...white-fringed pate, Banker Morgan fiddled with a heavy gold watch chain, beamed upon the committee as the show began. At the opening he was permitted to read a prepared statement. For about 15 minutes he read rapidly a definition and defense of private banking. A ring on his finger glinted gold. Only direct allusion to his own company was the fact that he has always been "averse to his partners' holding directorships in other banking institutions but he consents because "the only way people can be helped is the way they wish to be helped." Said...