Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merely to gather evidence in support of them. But the charge of the county authorities that they are Communists is patently ridiculous, and quite beside the point. Regardless of their political convictions, they have an obvious right to investigate industrial conditions in any part of the country. The fatuous finger-wagging of the Kentucky authorities proves nothing except that Kentucky is a near-neighbor of Tennessee...
...once, that he has 47 scars. One of them, running along his right cheek, gives his dark and friendly face a dangerous look which he enhances by wearing black sweaters and scowling. He received his first injury in Australia, where he was born in 1888. A snake bit his finger and his brother chopped it off. In most professional sports there is some character whose endurance or perverse courage has earned him the banal distinction of being called an "iron man." NcNamara has been the iron man of bicycle riders for 15 years. Grown somewhat rusty with...
...submarines -at an estimated cost of $616,250,000 in ten years. Representative Vinson dropped his bill in January because of the Geneva Conference and the low state of Treasury finances. Fortnight ago, however, he took the House floor to announce a change of mind, to point a warning finger at the "crisis" in the Far East, to predict failure for the Geneva parley, to argue that naval shipbuilding during Depression would save the U. S. money, help relieve unemployment...
...blocks of all automatic pistols, such as the Colt employed by Sacco, are filed by hand, each gun leaves a characteristic cartridge impression which can be identified "as accurately as a finger-print." Sharp-eyed police picked up a cartridge near the scene of the crime that bore the "fingerprint" of Sacco's gun block. Sacco not only was found with the weapon on his person but admitted owning it for a long time, stating that he had taken it from home just "to keep the children from playing with it." This evidence, not properly stressed at the trial, undoubtedly...
...pictures is sensational. But sensational not only for its novelty, but because the "Surrealistes" often deliberately purpose to shock and surprise, so that you may be deprived of all preconceived standards open to new impressions. They intend to shock, as the safe-breaker might pare the skin off his finger-tips, so that his supersensitized bared flesh might the better feel the fumblers fall; to shock as the bull-fighter first uncovers the nerves of his audience by the wilful and barbaric shedding of blood and disemboweling of defenseless horses, so that the supersensitized public might the better sense...