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Word: fingered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy's father shuffled his feet, greasy bandannas wiped away tears. Daggert's finger picked out one after another of his old friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Speech on a Buoy | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Emett, who lives in Birmingham with his wife, and works on the drafting boards of an airplane factory, tactfully comments on himself as follows: "Living, as he does, within a stone's throw of the center of England, Rowland Emett likes to imagine that he has his finger on the pulse of affairs-particularly those of the more curious sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Emett of Punch | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...people, feels he has some influence on their lives just by working with them. And they think he is tops. Wrote Beverly Hills' late Editor Rob Wagner (Script): "Without doubt Father Dodd is the best-loved character in movieland. ... He has never 'preached' nor pointed the finger of superior virtue at his erring sheep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Chaplain to the Movies | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...boys come marching home. The scheme, sponsored by the Broadway Association, was described by its backers as "an arch fashioned to represent two huge palm leaves which are emblematic of Victory. . . . At the apex of the main motif will be placed the figures of Peace and Justice. The finger of Peace will point in the direction of Europe and Asia. Justice, displaying her broken sword, will be shown facing the Americas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Carefree Yet Rhythmic | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Bishop Heaslett welcomed this priest's friendship because he had trouble cutting his nails with the prison scissors. He persuaded the priest to bring along his own scissors, and while the two of them compared notes on Buddhist and Christian theology, the Bishop took care of his finger- and toenails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prayers in Prison | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

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