Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale University, much to its probable discomfiture, has hatched another crop of mosquitoes to edit again the Harkness Hoot. These young posts hover over Yale's precious architecture, thumb their noses at its partially Gothic elegance, refuse to be in any way cowed by the Harkness millions, and take an unholy delight in the inconsistencies they see taking shape around them--particularly in the Gothic exterior of Pierson-Davenport College and its Georgian inner court. They helpfully offer as their own proposed Yale building a drawing of a very prettily designed small church of American colonial architecture topped with...
...Detroit, a policeman arrested Peter De Peter on suspicion, but could not determine what there was queer about him. At police headquarters Peter De Peter was fingerprinted; amazed policemen saw he had on each hand five fingers & a thumb, promptly released him. Peter De Peter said his father was ten-fingered and twelve-toed, and so was his son, 15, until he had the extra fingers cut off. He works his ten fingers nimbly at the Hudson Motor Car Co. plant...
...most our fleet or the British could do towards attacking the respective countries would be to steam across, place the ball of the thumb on the nose, make a disrespectful gesture, and steam back for more fuel", the Admiral remarked. "Each would wreak such havoc on the convoyed commerce of the other, however, that the publics would raise so much hell that the war would be stopped...
Last week Iowans could thumb derision back at Illinoisians across the Mississippi. At Iowa City Iowa had the only stuffed replica in the world of a dodo...
...strongly suspect Secretary Stimson of borrowing his "bathtub" analogy- from Secretary Mellon's experience with the bathtubs of the old Bull Hotel in Cambridge, England. I recently stayed there and largely failed to solve the intricacies of the 18-inch brass and rubber stoppers with the thumb screw attachment in the same three tubs which Mr. Mellon used, and of which the Dull Hotel is justly proud (TIME, Aug. 3). There seems to be no way to manipulate to prevent a slow but steady drain. But the Hull Hotel is one of the best and most comfortable hotels...