Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SALE THE HOUSE OF TOM THUMB...
...house, built half a century ago, stands far back from the street, masked by huge trees. There memories foregather. There Charles S. Stratton, exploited by P. T. Barnum as "General Tom Thumb," dwelt with his wife, that delectable midget, the onetime Lavinia Warren...
...General's" career was unprecedented, surpassed the triumphs of modern cinema idols. No screen sheik from Rudolph Valentino down can truthfully boast, as did Midget Thumb: "I have kissed nearly two million ladies, including the Queens of England, France, Belgium and Spain...
...Inness put his foot through it. Officials from a museum admired a summer evening. Inness smeared his thumb in yellow, pushed it across the moon. "Stay there," he said, "until I make you white. . . ." He painted a few draped figures. Nudes, with the controlling necessity for form, were a tax upon his patience. They were also a tax upon his knowledge for he had never learned the grammar of art; he composed with genius, but his drawing would not parse. He was a master of tone. His pigment, always transparent, was thinned with a vehicle-Siccatif de Haarlem or Siccatif...
...spite of the conciliation efforts of the Slavic Committee on Conciliation and the Citizens Committee, Passaic thumb-twiddlers likewise had the day. Textile strikers entered upon their 27th week of strike...