Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard to find. He spreads calm and good will like a road-oiling wagon. At home he is a model father to his three daughters, Margery, 15, Joyce, 14, Randall, 7. When they were younger he liked to tell them stories; particularly the story about the boy with his finger in the dike. But when business was on his mind he sometimes lost interest in the story and began mumbling about a law case. "Never mind the law case," the children would shout, "tell us about the boy with his finger in the dike." The family plays games like...
...advocate Universal Military Training as a "character and health builder" is to point a finger of shame at our homes and educational systems. If these are so poor, so ignorant or so depraved that the draft is needed to train young men, then it would seem self-evident that we should spend more money for better schools, more for public health, and work out some educational and character-building program for young parents...
...began to drift off the dirt-floored circle; the chanting bets still continued. "I'll bet a hundred" or "A hundred to eighty." The usual bet was $100. The big ones-$1,000 and up-were made more quietly, by a whisper, a nod, a flick of a finger. On the wall was a sign saying "No Profanity Allowed." There was none. In the audience, one woman fed a baby from a bottle...
Widener, which controls the House libraries, would have all believe that their inadequacies are caused by light-fingered local students. No doubt it is a temptation to pick up a book and leave, knowing that in five out of the seven House libraries no one will life a finger to stop you. But the libraries are as much to blame for this situation as are the students. Library monitors are not being paid merely to work at a private desk and maintain the silence of the reading room. They should check all books leaving the premises, as does Widener...
Despite the LeCorbeillers deep interest in General Education the master of the house can easily be distracted. Just confront him with one of two listeners and a black board and both chalk and an excited index finger will start wagging as Philippe LeCorbeiller takes a long, penetrating glance at a world that is a long long...