Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rickety little Broad Street Hospital, in the swarming alleys of Manhattan's financial district, has patched up many a cut finger and sprained ankle for brokers and clerks. Two years ago the hospital went bankrupt. Last year it was reorganized. The new directors changed its name to Downtown Hospital, chipped in $50,000 to keep it going. But everyone still called it Broad Street; and still the bills piled...
...pressure of the emergency, the Army's authorized strength is being upped to 400,000. Resurrected was a dramatic World War I poster by James Montgomery Flagg. Twenty-three years later. Uncle Sam once more looked hard at the young men of his country, pointed a sharp, arresting finger, said "I Want...
...Hapeville, Ga., Jolly white-haired Mrs. C. F. Morgan, who once dreamed that her husband's finger would be cut off (it was), announced her fourth vision of Aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred J. Noonan, lost in the Pacific since July 2, 1937. Mrs. Morgan's dreams: Earhart and Noonan are alive on a densely thicketed four-acre island; her hair "has grown long and waves in the breeze"; she cooks over a clay pot supported by part of her plane's framework, invariably asks Mrs. Morgan "to come closer and I'll explain...
...Louisiana State University stadium (built by Huey Long) rode smiling Citizen Jones. Solemn-faced, he put his hand on a Bible opened to Exodus, pointed a finger at the Commandment which says, "Thou Shalt not Steal," raised his other hand and took the oath as Governor of Louisiana. At that, 50,000 people applauded, fell upon 1.000 barbecued beeves, 130,000 foot-long sandwiches, downed gallons of lemonade...
...imitation machine gun, pull a trigger, try to shoot down a darting, fugitive image of an airplane. "No wonder players insert coin after coin-" exulted International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc., in a broadside extolling its Sky Fighter. "It's that 'trigger-finger' itch that everyone...