Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation's currency & credit, stemmed straight down from the White House through the Reserve Board Governor, who would serve at the President's pleasure. Stripped would have been the twelve regional Reserve Banks of what little autonomy they have left, leaving a highly-centralized banking system right under the thumb of the President...
...gets up, walks around the room, accosts the patient. "What seems to be the matter with you?" The patient tries to explain. Dr. Libman apparently pays little heed. He pats the patient's head, glides his right palm down the patient's neck, slyly presses his thumb, first against the tip of the mastoid bone ("Do you feel any pain? Does it hurt you when I press?"), then against the styloid process just below the ear, "Do you feel any pain? Does it hurt you when I press?" With a sensitive person, sick or well, pressure...
Seldom if ever had such a charge been heard in the U. S. Senate. Huey Long who is far too astute to stoop to such blundering knavery, leaned back and roared with laughter, jerking his thumb toward Wheeler who sat beside him. Redder still of face, Clark spluttered an apology and sat down...
...piddling political job is the office of New York State Superintendent of Insurance. Under his thumb are 800 insurance companies with $22,000,000,000 of assets, which is 80% of all U. S. insurance assets and a sum equal to the national debt when President Roosevelt entered the White House. Nor is the job a mere matter of making the companies toe the strict line of New York State's insurance laws-as Superintendent George Slingerland Van Schaick (pronounced Skoik) found out. For also under his supervision were the big mortgage companies that cracked up after...
...train to Berlin he shares a compartment with an older man, whose beautiful wig and inexplicable nervousness excite his curiosity. The young man soon discovers many a queer fact about bewigged Mr. Norris: he is a masochist, his affairs are suspiciously vague, he is somehow under the thumb of his surly secretary. Sometimes Mr. Norris seems to be rolling in money; the next, he is in Micawberish straits. Consistently disingenuous, he is soon shown to be a clumsy but optimistic liar. But the young man swallows as much of Mr. Norris' misty explanations as he can. accompanies...