Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deceiving" the country as to its fiscal position, for misleading a harassed Congress with bad estimates on receipts and expenditures. President-elect Roosevelt, it is known, wants the best possible man for Secretary of the Treasury to revive confidence in that department. The Press promptly pointed its long finger at white-crested Bernard Mannes ("Barney") Baruch. Mr. Baruch contributed $61,000 to the campaign. By rights the job was his. But Mr. Baruch, now 62. evidently does not want it or any other. He may prefer to be an informal dictator of Democratic policy from the Wall Street side lines...
...second salient factory in the spirited enthusiasm in football is the fact that it has never come under the finger of suspicion. Never have we heard of a college football game being "in the bag." The sport will ever remain popular just so long as the rules committee forces the employment of officials that are interested enough in the game and will do nothing to detract from its popularity by a questionable decision...
...hears his quiet elucidation of the abstruse, becomes his friend. His researches laid the foundations of our present knowledge of reflex actions. His Integrative Action of the Nervous System is practically an engineering manual of the body's telegraph system. When a person wants to crook his finger, nerves carry the decision to the appropriate muscles. When he wishes to straighten the finger, other nerves carry the decision to the other set of muscles concerned. Professor Sherrington discovered that during either of these movements the inactive muscles are not merely passively relaxed, but are actually inhibited so that they...
...members were added to 3.000 regular guests making it the largest in recent White House history. For an hour and 40 minutes the President, standing in the Blue Room, shook hand after hand after hand. Many an exuberant guest, ignorant of White House etiquet, wrung the President's fingers instead of allowing him to do the shaking. The President's hand turned red and began to swell. Jeweled rings cut into his palm and finger tips. The President noticed he was getting blood on ladies' white gloves. He felt fatigued. White House Physician Joel Boone ordered...
According to Speaker Garner the President "did not raise a finger" to help in the House tax fight and. when the sales tax was torn to shreds, he "chuckled and jeered." His treasury chiefs supplied such bad estimates of revenues that the House's budget-balancing efforts were largely "frustrated" and today's collections are running 45% behind expectations. "The budget is not balanced." declared Speaker Garner. "The whole job must be done over...