Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Tyler was President; as a boy he saw Iroquois Indians roaming the woods. His grandparents gave their land to Cornell University-so he said. In 1861 he enlisted in Pennsylvania's 71st Infantry. "I fit in the Battle of Gettysburg. A Minieball took the tip of my finger off. Shell creased my scalp. When the battle was over I rode a horse to the White House to tell the President. ... I left Gettysburg at 3:30 p.m. and arrived at Lincoln's place at 9:15 that evening...
...custard and a pound of filet mignon. Backing out of M'Toto's presence, Mrs. Hoyt brushed against the one side of Gargantua's cage that is not glass-enclosed. Gargantua thrust a huge hand between the bars and, with a single twitch of a clawed finger, tore Mrs. Hoyt's smart costume off her back...
Though not noisily sturdy like Mussolini, Hitler is a healthy man, who in ten years has changed physically less than most men between 42 and 52, and who has suffered no greater hurts than a finger broken in an automobile accident and a polyp removed from his larynx. The wig-like wad of hair which hangs across his forehead has no grey in it; nor has his curt mustache...
...books on. The committee spent $1,062,000, once had a staff of 182 experts, looked into 95 different industries, heard 552 witnesses. It made headlines month after month with sensational charges of patent monopoly in the glass-container industry, of international patent combines which put Germany's finger in the U.S. magnesium and optical-glass industries, etc. As its permanent record it left 37 volumes of printed testimony, 43 exhaustive monographs on various phases of its study...
...Thorne Smith transmogrification in which Joan turns ghost, floats over to Topper's house, lures him, his wife (Billie Burke), her maid (Patsy Kelly) and his colored chauffeur (Eddie Anderson) back to the scene of the crime for a dose of spooks. Before Topper points a thin, hesitating finger at the murderer the film shows: Billie Burke in her familiar role as an addlepate; gravel-voiced Eddie Anderson falling through trap doors, rasping protest; Carole Landis' highly touted legs; Patsy Kelly cracking wise...