Word: fingerer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recommending that more stress be laid on character and personal qualities in choosing worthy students, the Committee has put its finger on the heart of the whole problem. In the past the University has been content to give out aids to many applicants, sight unseen, whose numerical averages simply met the requirements. But if Harvard is to render the truly national service that the Conant Prize Plan anticipates, qualities of character--leadership, maturity, and general ability--as well as scholastic aptitude, must be considered in making the awards...
...around without warning, roared back to the House Office Building, leaped out, ran up the steps. The sergeant gave chase, begged him to "act like a gentleman." "Take off your glasses and draw your gun," cried Marion Zioncheck. In the ensuing scuffle the sergeant suffered a sprained finger, facial bruises. Capitol police joined the fray, helped hustle Representative Zioncheck into the guard room. Swearing he would sue the police department for false arrest, he finally agreed to go to court. With the courtroom jammed, Representative Zioncheck, acting as his own attorney, pleaded guilty to the speeding charge but insisted that...
...bevy of deep-bosomed young women in the striped skirts and handkerchief headdresses of the peasants of the Roman Campagna broke through the guards, nearly mobbed the Dictator. All their noses were carefully powdered and some had lacquered finger nails. II Duce was delighted. From one he took a bunch of flowers; another he chucked under the chin; at a third he cocked a roguish eye. In the best of moods he invited all the foreign correspondents present to lunch. In a body they moved on to a dusty little trattoria whose proprietor, trembling with excitement, rushed from house...
...obvious answer is that the legislature, controlled by the powerful mill interests, has seen fit to object to the probing finger of publicity on its most tender spot--conditions in the mills. As in the West Virginia coal mines of a few years back, and the Tennessee mines and Louisiana sugar plantations of today, the working conditions of the men and women employed is often appalling. The Moody case is an instance of the rigorous censorship which is kept on all unfavorable reports of what is going on below the Mason-Dixon Line...
Asked when he began finger dancing, moonfaced, ingenuous M. Martin answers: "I don't remember, but it was in my childhood-which I haven't finished...