Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Mr. Ickes, lifting a warning finger: oil reserves might be exhausted in 20 years, zinc in 25, copper in 30, lead in 30 to 40, and high-grade iron ore in 50. But coal deposits, which Harold Ickes valued at $10 trillion, could last 50 centuries...
...hair. He likes his fun and has it, drinks a wide variety of liquors, from national raki to good Scotch whiskey, but is more moderate now than in his younger days. He is still spry in friendly company, often takes to the dance floor to perform the Sarizeybek, a finger-snapping, foot-stomping Izmir mountain dance learned in his native village...
...Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, recently gave up half his ?9,000 ($36,000) salary. Tories who dislike His Grace for his leftish economic and social ideas were quick to point a scornful finger at this renunciation. Said Sir Herbert Williams in the House of Commons: "He has entered into a perfectly splendid arrangement . . . [he] will pay less taxation in the future...
According to legend, the composers of Broadway's musical shows are one-finger pianists who can read music barely, if at all. The legend is exaggerated. If they had a mind to, composers like Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg and Jerome Kern could turn out a musical score complete from piccolo to glockenspiel. In the more leisurely days of Victor Herbert, they would have. But today, the writing of musical comedies, like the manufacture of automobiles, is a production-line job. The composer thinks up the tunes, outlines the continuity, sometimes even writes out a more or less...
...Oona O'Neill had described her eight-month acquaintance with Charles Chaplin as "entirely on the esoteric side," the comedian packed sleek, sloe-eyed Oona into a car, picked up the certificate and a case of champagne at Santa Barbara, sped to coastal Carpinteria, nervously found the finger for her first and his fourth wedding ring,* hid himself and his bride somewhere in Montecito...