Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dora is quite different from other girls. She doesn't mind telling us how old she is. How old are you. Dora? You've forgotten again? Never mind. But keep your thumb out of your mouth. Dora is twenty-three. She has been here now nearly ten years. There has been some improvement. Now Dora can bathe herself and tie her shoes...
...self-justifying participants. In September 1923 Mark Sullivan hired his secretary's brother as assistant, set out to carry on approximately where Twenty Years of the Republic had left off. In the enormous task which he had set himself, Historian Sullivan's first move was to thumb through the newspapers of the time, rake over his own memories and mementoes. Next he consulted available documents-biographies, magazine articles, stenographic reports, the Congressional Record. Photographs, drawings, cartoons he culled from the files of old magazines. When each chapter was finished, he had 50 copies of it printed, sent them...
...Five times have I taken a life. . . . "The first case was a newborn child, clearly doomed to imbecility. With the squeeze of my finger and thumb, I had taken a life. "In the second case, the child was born without a skullcap. "The third case was that of a farmer suffering from an incurable and agonizing disease. He died clasping my hand, and murmuring, 'God bless you, doctor.' "The fourth case was a man suffering from the same disease and unable to eat, drink or sleep. He was in agony beyond the torment of the damned. He also...
...that our country being treated in this affair as a colony populated with primitive peoples who have to bow without an understanding of everything imposed upon them! Ready enough to start bowing himself Sidky Pasha larded into his speech coy hints that Egypt must continue under Britain's thumb but should have her official "free and independent" status improved by concluding between Cairo and London a reciprocal "military alliance on an equal footing...
...12th century South Indian bronze statue, the most valuable object in the exhibit. Another bronze, which is mounted on a pedestal near the entrance, symbolizes the incarnation of Buddah. Every line of his face, from his furrowed brow to the tip of his pointed chin which is couched between thumb and fore-finger, helps to form an expression of deep meditation...