Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the world, Socialists, Liberals, Communists pointed a finger at Mussolini and cried: "Murderer...
...duty or airplane tire to make his final sprint." The synthetic production program has succeeded, he said, and "our production capacity is now so great that we have been able to lend some synthetic rubber manufacturing facilities to provide extra quantities of high-octane gasoline. . . ." Then he pointed his finger at the present bottleneck: the lack of manpower and equipment in making heavy-duty tires...
...turn. Whenever Stinky munched Yes, Sir, That's My Baby on his mouth organ, Curley got up on his points and danced. The agent soon made his fame global. He was the toast of feature writers, the darling of lepidopterists. He was photographed embracing Mayor LaGuardia's finger, strolling up a model's leg. LIFE ran him on its cover, with the simple caption Curley. Bill Robinson introduced the Curley Capers. Grover Whalen bid for his services as a morris dancer at the New York World's Fair...
...Dewey in a walkaway. Withoutlifting a finger, without once giving to the men from Maine to Oregon the sign they asked for, Governor Thomas E. Dewey became Candidate Dewey, G.O.P. nominee for the Presidency...
Crazy Like a Fox includes 46 of the fey five-finger exercises with which Humorist Perelman has since tickled the funny bones and ribs of readers of the New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. This crowded showcase displays Perelman's talents as a gagman at their best. But it also reveals the monotony of his formula, which to some readers is as enervating, in its way, as the late Harold Bell Wright...