Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brain. To help detect the earliest signs of this palsy and combat it, Dr. Abraham Maurice Ornsteen of Philadelphia offered a suggestion which anyone can try in his own living room. The suspect holds both hands before his face, with all fingers clenched except fore finger and thumb. He then rapidly pats each forefinger against each thumb. Normally, the twitching is symmetrical in the two hands. In the abnormal state "one notes a definite limitation of agility...
...single Council member, even remote Chile or puny Denmark which is almost under Adolf Hitler's thumb, could be found to approve Germany's rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, then the Council could not so much as rebuke Germany, for the Council can act only by unanimity...
...countryside, break out of a dungeon, and make friends with a blind hermit who teaches him to smoke cigars and speak. Meanwhile one Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger), as convincingly lunatic a scientist as ever reached the screen, shows Baron Henry Frankenstein, the monster's creator, the Tom-Thumb King, Queen, Archbishop and Satan he has cultured from human seed until they can chatter and gesticulate in test-tube prisons in his Mephistophelian laboratory. Pretorius forces the Baron to collaborate on a woman-monster by having the Baron's bride (Valerie Hobson) kidnapped until he consents. There...
Signor Mussolini, impatient and contemptuous of the "exploratory voyages" of Sir John and Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden (TIME, April 1 et seq.), sought to get everyone down to brass tacks. Observed Italian newsorgans which are under his thumb: "What have these explorations done except to leave Italy under the necessity of maintaining 600,000 men in arms? . . . When is procrastination to give place to action...
...since Paris is now flirting with an alliance with Moscow, the prosecution proceeded half-heartedly and Judge Revol seemed content to let his spy trial become a baby show, with beaming French policemen stumbling about with bottles, diapers, rattles and wraps, chortling: "Ah, le petit! Now he sucks his thumb...