Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have told us about the sleeping suit, and if I may be defensively leading for a minute, did the child have any thumb protectors...
...wire thumb guard which had a piece of tape through the sides of it and was fastened around the wrist of the sleeping suit on the outside...
...fact that the baby's thumb guard was tied outside the night dress indicates that the snatcher would have to remove the thumb guard to remove the sleeping garment. The thumb guard was found some 3,000 ft. from the Lindbergh house. Therefore, contends the State, the child was probably killed when the ladder broke, its corpse stripped shortly after the kidnapper left the house. The sleeping suit was used as an earnest of good faith by the writer of the ransom notes, which the State's handwriting experts will attribute to Hauptmann...
...nurse proves to be a fake but the museum prospers. Presently Barnum has a bigger one where General Tom Thumb does a minuet with his tiny wife. Bailey Walsh goes to purchase Jumbo from the London Zoo. When he returns with Jenny Lind (Virginia Bruce) instead, Barnum's troubles start. A Swedish masseur teaches him a toast. When he uses it at a banquet, Jenny Lind thinks he is trying to insult her. She scuttles back to Sweden, the neglected museum goes bankrupt, and Barnum is forlornly slouching on a park bench when his old friend General Thumb discovers...
...second oldest bank in Manhattan first opened for business at No. 40 Wall Street in 1799. Unable to obtain a bank charter from a New York legislature which was under the thumb of Alexander Hamilton, a slick politician named Aaron Burr wangled a charter for a concern to supply the City of New York with "pure & wholesome water." As all the world now knows, there was tucked away in that charter a harmless-looking clause permitting The Manhattan Co. to transact any financial business within...