Word: fingernail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the central police station doorway, shouldered him quarterway through a cell door, pried him out, let him sit on a bench. In the morning they opened both the courtroom's double doors to arraign him before Judge Westropp where he pleaded not guilty. They sent him away. Fingernail...
...West Point, Ga., charged with the murder of Charlene Johnson by stabbing her in the leg artery with a penknife. Negro Joe Beasley was freed when he showed Judge Novatus L. Barker a broken fingernail. Playing the piano at a dance, Joe Beasley had broken the nail, taken out the penknife between dances to pare it. Pushed in the crowd. Charlene Johnson had bumped into the knife, stabbed herself...
...Picasso had designed for him. He did amazing footwork to a dozen complicated rhythms. He conversed with his castanets, brutally, insolently, insinuatingly. He swelled out his chest and shot meaningful glances at his partners, Carmela and Carmita. He clucked with his tongue, sniffed with his nose, even snapped a fingernail accompaniment to one of his dances...
...girls with him repeated nearly everything they did. Escudero strutted about like a cock, clicking his heels and tapping his toes through dances loosely designed. His conversational castanet-playing impressed Ameri cans most. He barked with them brutally, whispered insinuatingly. For the end of one dance he snapped a fingernail accompaniment...
Russell also recounted an incident to prove the rapidness of dreams, even in the case of those who are normally mentally slow. A wife awoke her husband one morning by drawing her fingernail across his throat. He awoke immediately, but in this few seconds he had dreamed of events covering a period of four hours duration ending with his being placed under a guillotine during the French revolution...