Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon the field of honor went the students, each with a hand grenade firmly fixed between the thumb and fingers of the right hand. When the umpire dropped his white handkerchief the duellists threw their bombs? both failed to explode...
...took Petey out of his cage and it lay in the palm of my hand, pecking feebly at my thumb as if to say: 'Master, I love you.' . . . My father, knowing something of medicine, tried to save Petey's life, but after hours of effort, some time after midnight, the little thing expired...
Whitney Cromwell carries off highest honors in the poetry. The picture of Pan pressing his "twisted thumb against his nose" is delicious-and it is painted with well-swung movements of the brush. What is more, it is a generous relief from the devil-in-the-inkpot type of verse. Mr. Hope's "Ballad" is symbolic and severe, as much a ballad should be; but then Mr. Hope can usually be counted on to produce good work...
...attempt to bring capital and labor together "on the basis of national discipline," which means under the thumb of Fascismo, was made during the week...
...Barnum. Joice Heth, Jumbo the Great, Tom Thumb, "The Great Model of Niagara Falls, Real Water," the "Fejee Mermaid,"-yet "Hamlet without Hamlet would not be more impossible than the Museum would have been without Barnum...