Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very thing Soviet statesmen expect, fear. As Communists they are arrayed against the Capitalist world. They expect it to fight back. When President Herbert Hoover and Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald summoned the London Naval Conference a queer thing happened in Moscow. Newsorgans directly under the Dictator's thumb screamed with alarm, warned that at last representatives of the Capitalist nations were meeting to organize secretly a Capitalist attack upon and boycott of the Soviet proletariat...
...Pennsylvania outranks a Senator from Pennsylvania, because a Governor controls State patronage on which political machines subsist, whereas a Senator only ornaments and dignifies the group that puts him into office. No man may call himself State Boss unless he has the No. 1 official at Harrisburg under his thumb. In an attempt to become Boss, Mr. Vare, overlord of Philadelphia, put up Francis Shunk Brown for Governor, his chief attorney in his futile fight for a Senate seat (TIME, Dec. 16). As a matter of political convenience, Secretary of Labor James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis was added...
Although there is an undoubted value in sugaring the diet, it has been observed, and rightly observed, that the main purpose of lollypops is to give the child a substitute for his thumb. The vari-coloured aspect of the product has also been stressed by some authorities as an important factor in attracting and focusing the child's attention. No person or organization, however, with the exception of the Boston Traveler, has ever promoted the American lollypop as the eternal panacea for all infant ills...
...Minonk, 111., when Artie May stuck his hand down a furrow, a rabbit dislocated Artie May's thumb by kicking...
Shoulder to shoulder with M. Tardieu stood Mr. Snowden. and thumb-snapped at the Germans...