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...Royal Chamberlain handed the bride's father an envelope containing a check for 10,000,000 piastres ($257,000), half of the royal dowry (the other half to be paid in case of divorce). The father then reached out his right hand thumb upright to King Farouk, who pressed his own right thumb against it while the Sheik El Maraghi threw a green silk cloth over both hands. Intoned the bride's father...
...photograph was not reversed, else the map of the U. S., on the wall behind them, would, in such case, be poking its Florida thumb out on the Southwest corner...
...zither, a German-Austrian-Swiss folk instrument, is sometimes called "the mountain piano." A really good zither is a shallow box with 41 wire strings. Laid on the lap or a table, it is played by fingering with the left hand, plinking with a thumb pick and fingers of the right hand...
...concerts his playing of Bach, Mozart, Schumann had gained in nobility and strength. And he braved the showiness of Liszt so capably that his audience might never have guessed, had he not mentioned it to an interviewer beforehand, that he had contemplated revising his program to spare his right thumb which, outstretched, had lately collided with his garden wall in Wiesbaden...
Some of the characters who people these sequences include a sardonic anthropologist named Dr. Thumb, who involves himself joyfully on Trolley's side; Newshawk Kilgallon, Trolley's satirical, hard-drinking crony, a World War hero and onetime child prodigy singer who has been trying to commit suicide since adolescence; Gus Popolos, a Rasputin-like fanatic who wanders around in a moth-eaten bear rug, proclaims Colonel Steele the new Messiah, finally marries an outsmarted chorus girl; Moussa, a notorious Arab pickpocket, whom nobody understands except Captain Trolley; the mayor's katzenjammer son, whose snooping in Dr. Thumb...