Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concerts his playing of Bach, Mozart, Schumann had gained in nobility and strength. And he braved the showiness of Liszt so capably that his audience might never have guessed, had he not mentioned it to an interviewer beforehand, that he had contemplated revising his program to spare his right thumb which, outstretched, had lately collided with his garden wall in Wiesbaden...
...desperadoes, Widmer and both Birds had disappeared, but in a nearby yard two small girls were screaming and pointing at a child-size pup tent in which they had been playing. Police surrounded the yard, converged on the tent. From it sheepishly emerged Theodore Slapik, his right thumb crudely bandaged where it had been hit by a detective's bullet...
Laid in the thumb-shaped spur of rocky land that juts down from the county of Mayo along the west coast of Ireland, and with this period as background, Famine just fails of being the epic of struggle and suffering its author unquestionably designed it to be. But for readers strong-stomached enough to endure an unrelenting account of human misery. Famine is a powerful and at times wildly moving novel...
Thanks to its never-say-die publisher and its A. F. of L. printers, the ruffled Brooklyn Eagle could thumb its beak last week at the C. I. O. American Newspaper Guild. Although about 300 editorial and business office Guildsmen were called out on strike after the Guild's demand for a contract was turned down, Publisher Millard Preston Goodfellow worked through day and night with a punctured staff, got out the regular evening editions while as many as 250 pickets booed from the sidewalk. Ten were arrested for disorderly conduct. Printers pierced the picket line to prepare evening...
...players was married and they would therefore, presumably, have no worries about absent husbands. True, two of the U. S. tennists- Alice Marble and Carolin Babcock-had sore backs and Helen Jacobs, in the year since she lost the U. S. singles championship to Alice Marble, had dislocated her thumb, torn a shoulder ligament and banged her knee with a racket. But pretty Kay Stammers was not feeling in top form either and she was the mainstay of the British (Wimbledon Champion Dorothy Round stayed at home). In the first day's play at Forest Hills last week, Alice...