Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them continued to peep their chubby infant granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth,* famed as "Baby Betty." A nurse held her up at the window of her nursery in Buckingham Palace, and she blinked sleepily, sucking her thumb...
...Belford is a villainous and scurrilous little Catholic puppy up here in the State of New York, who edits or writes for a little sheet called The Mentor, and who suggests that a thug be hired to waylay and attack me. I could pinch his brains out between my thumb and forefinger...
...whether a boy is able to got on at Yale, and away from old cut-and-dried methods, which as older graduates will recall, were a bone of contention between the University and its Western alumni a decade or more ago. We do not believe that any rule of thumb test, whatever it is called, will be of much use in discovering a boy's aptitude for college work. But the Scholastic Aptitude tests that are now being experimented with avoid that error; if they are not given too great weight, they can be of some use without doubt...
...their class directory, thumb-marks of Harvard 1921-ers may be found upon the name of Thomas S. Lament, son of famed Morgan Partner Lament, upon the name of a Cabot, a Frothingham, a Lee, a Lothrop, a Lowell, a Sedgwick. They do not all know one another. But all know Powers Hapgood. He is their only coal miner. He prepared for Harvard at Andover, where Yale is the most popular college...
What a mincing third movement! Pretty. "General and Mrs. Tom Thumb" was a good title. But that rasping and rattling? of course they did quarrel like little tornadoes...