Word: thumbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyone, even an art critic, has his own way of valuing pictures. Nils Nilsson Skum, a Laplander, values them according to one rule-of-thumb: how many reindeer do they show? His own crayon drawings sometimes have hundreds. He figures that must be why three Swedish museums own them. It was not the reason that Manhattan's Museum of Natural History put his pictures on exhibition last week. The Museum had found a primitive of the likes of upstate New York's octogenarian painter "Grandma" Moses (TIME...
Floodlights made the still unfinished façade stick out like a sore (but well-manicured) thumb. Under the rich-red-marquee and in the gold-tinted, glass-walled lobby, uniformed attendants and tuxedoed higher-ups bowed and bustled. The grand opening of Manhattan's Park Avenue Theater last week had all the hoopla of a Hollywood première, except for one thing. There were no crowds...
Jack ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik, one of the successors to Capone's power, came to his wake. Hymie ("Loud Mouth") Levin, another underworld kingpin, sent flowers. So did politicians from the First Ward. But the funeral at old St. Mary's Catholic Church was a disappointment-half the seats were empty, and Hinky Dink got only three automobile loads of flowers, as compared to Bathhouse John's seven...
...your baby neurotic? Does he cry at night, suck his thumb, bang his head against the crib, wet the bed, talk or walk in his sleep? If so, he may be getting too much sleep. This conclusion has been forced on British Child Psychiatrist J. A. McCluskie, long a student of dissatisfied babies...