Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long, upholstered office in City Hall sat the man who had his finger on this pulsebeat. Daily, at all hours, across the claret-colored rug streamed aides, colleagues, politicians, businessmen, repairmen, newsmen. The young man, who saw everyone, was the city's mayor: deLesseps ("Chep") Story Morrison, 35, handsome, bouncing, talkative, tough and stubborn...
This dictum, pronouned after practice, had to be modified on the appearance in the medical sanctum of assistant coach Eddie Davis with a wounded second finger on his right hand. Davis, a giant tackle on the 1946 team and a present Business School student, revealed that the injured digit had been "caught in a mousetrap play...
...seeing the heralded clash of the aeons when the bombshell of professionalism in the ranks of the Journalist burst into the public eye. By the time that the public had wiped its eye clean it could plainly see Billion J. Wingham, mahatma of the college league, pointing an accusing finger southward to the shores of Lake Carnegie...
...Walter Winchell and the late Alexander Woollcott. He let his listeners in on his random thoughts, a bit of philosophy, some gossip. He did a little crusading for higher salaries for teachers. He told a yarn about World's Fair days, when J. Edgar Hoover put the finger on a gangster who was bothering Billy. He bemoaned all the big-time stars that he has been dope enough to pass...
Last week the dean of the Alley's songwriters, who never had more than two years' schooling, put a finger on the trouble. Said Irving Berlin: present-day songwriters are, or think they are, too sophisticated to write simple songs. One of Berlin's newest songs, Kate, which sounds very much like some of the 800 other songs he has written, is climbing up the best-seller lists. Annie Get Your Gun, featuring 15 songs he wrote, is still playing to standing-room-only crowds after a year and a half on Broadway. And White Christmas, Berlin...