Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However the essence of Surrealisme is not at all new. Perhaps the first Surrealiste Act was the Creation of Man. The creation of the material world was naturalistic enough. Whereas the beginning of Life, whether by the Finger of God, or evolved from green algae, is to us something of transcendant importance, astonishing; sensational, incomprehensible, practicably incredible, perhaps a hoax, not supernatural but in fact super-real. And whatever the possible logical explanation may prove, we cannot deny that the illogical mystery has been for centuries our zest in living...
...said something to Secretary Hurley. Secretary Hurley spoke to General MacArthur. General MacArthur raced off for his office, scribbled something on a scratch pad, handed it to General George Van Horn Moseley, deputy chief of staff, who tapped out an order on his stenographer's typewriter with one finger. Then the President told an anxious nation...
Among clever Fishback advertisements was one which poked a not-too-gentle finger at rival Saks Fifth Avenue which gladly carries charge accounts. Right across the Avenue from Saks was a wooden fence, hiding Radio City's excavation. On it Miss Fishback saw the familiar slogan: "POST NO BILLS." Out of her observation came an advertisement headed "Macy Propaganda invades Fifth Avenue." A cartoon made the scene of the invasion unmistakable...
...near Moscow (TIME, Jan. 18). That same day four Siberian railmen had been sentenced to death before a firing squad for "gross criminal negligence" in causing a wreck.* Wives, kinsfolk and 1,000 curious Muscovites crowded the smoky room. Fierce, Trotskyish Chief Prosecutor Reuben Katanyan pointed a long, lean finger at the dazed defendants, described the wreck in lurid detail. "The passenger coaches were crushed like matches!'' he cried. "Forty of the dead will never be identified. They were cut into bits!" Nevertheless, Prosecutor Katanyan asked no severer penalties than ten years' imprisonment. In the midst...
...patrician middle-aged woman pointed a sharp straight finger at a young Hawaiian named Joe Kahahawai as he sauntered down the front steps of the Court House in Honolulu one sunny morning last week. "That's the man!" she said...