Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech which most Democrats studied for platform pointers, Mr. Baruch gave Governor Ritchie his first important push toward the White House. Declared this wise old Democratic counselor: "We have in our midst the perpetual* Governor of Maryland to whom the finger of Fate seems to point as being perhaps destined to move to a neighboring District...
...University of Illinois. But he never gave up art. He has exhibited many times at the Chicago Art Institute and with private dealers. He makes trips to the Rockies and to Switzerland to paint forests and mountains. Intensely supersti tious, he puts five thin rings on his index finger at the beginning of each football season, keeps them in that order until his team loses a game, shifts them from finger to finger in various combinations until the team wins again. Year ago he wrote a book on football coaching containing innumer able detailed schedules and diagrams (drawn by himself...
...color. With the subject's neck held rigidly in an iron clamp the plate was exposed in a camera for from three to 30 minutes, developed by holding it over a cup of hot mercury, fixed by dipping in a mixture of hyposulphite of soda and gold chloride. Finger marks and heat ruin the image of a daguerreotype...
...telegrams and Sunday papers. A great deal had happened to her in three years. She had studied diligently in Italy, learned to speak pure Italian instead of the dialect on which she had been raised. She had sung at the Scala and in Genoa. With lips vermilion-red and finger nails to match, she returned to the U. S. this autumn to find herself good copy because she was a New Jersey laborer's daughter and at 19 had a five-year contract with the Chicago Civic Opera Company. Her father had died while she was away...
...feloniously "attempted to evade & defeat" payment during three of those years. Now he was to be sentenced. As a concession to the solemnity of the occasion he had left off his jewelry, was wearing a comparatively sober pinchback suit of blue. He fondled a bandaged right fore-(trigger)-finger, sucked and sucked on his coughdrop...