Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bird described the worst of 82 squalid saloons in three-quarters of a Madison Street mile (most of them selling the "morning special," a double shot of whisky for 18?), listed the names & addresses of saloonkeepers who were breaking the state liquor and health laws, and put the finger on couldn't-care-less cops...
...saying what touched off the explosion, but shrewd La Salle Streeters put their finger on one possibility: the opposite postwar policies of Montgomery Ward and U.S. Gypsum. At Ward's, Avery has pulled in his horns and refused to expand, piling up cash for the depression he thinks is coming. At Gypsum, Keady had poured $53,800,000 into expansion and modernization, doubled Gypsum's gross to $148,555,269 since he took over, more than tripled...
...Khan, and his bride, Rita Hayworth. Just outside the gates of their villa, a black Citroën (license number 1707RN7) crowded their Cadillac to the side of the road. Three shabbily dressed men jumped out, and before anyone could snap a finger the Aga Khan's party was looking into the muzzles of menacing Tommy guns...
Irish Novelist Sean O'Faolain (A Nest of Simple Folk and The Great O'Neill) would never call himself a professional historian; his new book pretends to no scholarly grandeur and contains little beyond what O'Faolain had at his finger tips. But there have been few offhand studies of Irish history that manage to be so illuminating or so urbane...
...posed for a publicity gag shot lighting a cigarette from the lighted fuse of a small bomb. Someone had made a mistake: the bomb was no fake. It exploded, blowing a hole in the ceiling and taking away part of Lloyd's face and the thumb and index finger of his right hand. Only determination pulled him through the accident and the subsequent surgery. But back into the movie business he went. The intent, slightly bewildered, obviously virtuous face of Harold Lloyd began popping out at movie audiences in thousands of Palaces and Bijous. The nation split its sides...