Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duly accredited scholars for many years. They are not, nor can they ever be, available to the public. In 1924 when the Morgan Library was handed over to a group of trustees as a semi-public institution, the present head of the House of Morgan wrote: "One soiled thumb could undo the work of 900 years, and a misplaced cough could be a disaster...
...plaintiff's refusal and an unsuccessful attempt by the usher to put him out, a police officer did so. Mrs. Saltoncabot followed. Outside the Stadium, but inside Soldiers Field, the head usher, Caroll Cetchell, was standing. He hissed to the plaintiff and his wife, gesturing with his thumb toward the gate...
Also last week the Treasury imposed higher anti-dumping duties on electric light bulbs and sneakers from Japan, celluloid-covered thumb tacks from Germany, saponified stearic acid from The Netherlands...
...night's work if I do say so." Unknown to him, Miss Ona Munson, a flaxen-haired soubrette with a childish uncertainty in her voice, has stowed away in the cab. For her benefit the undismayed comedian does a complicated tap dance up & down a pair of Tom Thumb steps, sits down at a portable piano and sings the tuneful theme song, "Hold Your Horses," to his mare Magnolia. When he refers to Magnolia's heart of gold a flap opens in her side, displaying a large gilt heart. A midget in a tiny horse's suit...
...threat, for the U. S. not only has a law against foreigners dumping in the U. S., but even when the Secretary made his announcement the Treasury Department was considering forbidding imports of steel from Germany, tennis shoes, electric light bulbs and calcium carbide from Japan, stearic acid and thumb tacks from Holland, rock salt from Canada, woven wire fencing, sulphide paper and binder twine from England-all on the grounds of dumping. Following his wheat export proposal Mr. Wallace announced final details of the plan to raise hog and corn prices (TIME, Aug. 21): the Government will spend...