Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin the Senator was induced to discuss his peregrinations in Turkey. The irreconcilable, who opposed the Turkish-American Treaty for reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, was in a critical mood. As he saw it, Turkey was coming more and more under the thumb of Bolshevik Russia, which is rapidly extending its influence through commercial penetration. Germany's trade position in regard to Turkey, the Senator was convinced, is also fast reaching its pre-War importance, while the positions of Britain, France and Italy are made stationary through jealousy...
...committed to terrorize the petty chieftains into submission. The Valley of the Wergha, along which the fighting is taking place, is noted for its rich iron deposits; and in the views of some the war is in reality for their possession, Abd-el-Krim supposedly being under the thumb of Germany, who has promised to import all the ores which the Riff chief can deliver...
Determined to remedy this state of affairs, Richard E. Enright, New York City Police Commissioner, caused a card to be printed which he ordered every taximan to display in a prominent place in his cab. On it appear the photograph, thumb print and physical description of the driver, with the following warning to the passenger...
...wife's actions. One "noble lord", says the news-dispatch, bewailed the fact that a husband could no longer indulge in "moderate correction" of his wife, which used to be perfectly legal when done with a stick no bigger than the thickness of his thumb. This gentle method of chastisement has now been taken away, perhaps because of too great disparity in width of thumbs, but the harassed husband is still liable for the mischievous behavior of his wife...
Only the Italians knew. The Carbonari, meeting in the back rooms of cigar stores, the pungent lofts of fruit-mongers, passed the whisper with glittering eye and jerking thumb; the Black