Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Albanian authorities for a text of the agreement in Albanian differing from the binding text in Italian. Allegedly the Italian text (the "real" text) provides for interest at 13%, instead of 7˝% as in the Albanian version, and by other clauses virtually places the Treasury of Albania under the thumb of Italian bankers...
Theodore Roosevelt: "My brother, Kermit, lost his left thumb when, last week, a Manhattan surgeon amputated it to rid him of a persistent infection. The infection was apparently the result of radium treatment which my brother underwent six years ago to remove from his left thumb a wart...
Crisis. The events which sent M. Pashitch hurrying to his King were typical of many a Balkan crisis. The country had supposed that Foreign Minister Nintchitch* was in close touch with Premier Mussolini, and also that the new Jugoslav-born President Zogu of Albania was under his thumb. Like a thunderclap had come the news that Albania and Italy had concluded a mutual accord (TIME, Dec. 13). A rumor spread that this treaty contained secret military clauses which would make Albania an Italian pistol pointed at Jugoslavia. Suspicion, fear, hate seethed. Evidently Foreign Minister Nintchitch was a fool...
...only 'screwed' my monocle the tighter into its eye socket, and was installed, amid acclaim as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. I am said to be one of the few Englishmen who can perform the 'impossible' feat of tossing my monocle into the air with thumb and finger and catching it again with my right eye socket...
...Democrats in Indiana, is a story filled like a cinema with incredible wild flashes . . . a searchlight fumbling over an army of marchers in white hoods . . . an airplane with a gilded nose tilting out of a cloud . . . a bed in a poor house, something dead on the bed . . . old checks, thumb-marked, rubber-stamped, checks for enormous sums made out in furtive or in precise or pompous or illiterate calligraphies to a person named "Stephenson". . . . A man hissing through the disinfected bars of a prison cell a word so soft that his listener could hardly hear him. "The swine . . . the swine...