Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 1929 tall, jolly Pianist-Conductor Ernest Schelling was rehearsing his "Impressions From An Artist's Life" with the New York-Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. He banged his thumb on the keys, had to stop playing. On his thumb appeared a felon which turned into a prolonged infection. An ordinary felon (whitlow) is a skin or bone inflammation which usually lasts about three weeks. So long as the felon was "engaged in his employment, or maturing his felonious little plans," Pianist Schelling could play no solos. He could, however, and did, conduct the Saturday Philharmonic concerts...
...were charging. Dr. Feinberg, for example, charged $47 for four x-rays of a workman's hand, and nine office calls "for repair of wounds." The man had an injured right toe. Dr. Cassasa once charged for "strapping a foot" of an employe who had hurt his left thumb. Another employe cut a finger of his right hand. The bill to the city was $55- for 15 visits at $2 each and $25 for a sacroiliac support. For such services from the beginning of 1929 to Jan. 31, 1932, New York City paid Dr. Cassasa $59,169.75, Dr. Brennan...
...have spots-under the fur. A Buck theory: that all the leopards in the Malay Peninsula will be black in a few hundred years. One of his captives he named Spitfire II because of its likeness to another black leopard that had once removed a piece of the Buck thumb. Spitfire was caged on the deck of a Chinese-manned boat bound for Singapore. Nearby sat a Chinese butcher sharpening a knife. The butcher plunged his knife into a pig's throat, Spitfire smelled blood, burst from his cage, leapt over the side. Beastcatcher Buck felt his hair-roots...
...sophistication, such the trials of luxury. Men will come, remain, and depart like the seal in Bering sea and no man will know their path. And as he left the Vagabond bethought him, "Give me the days of knife and paper cutter, take back the Parietal Regulations and the thumb tacks...
...fact that similar crises are liable to reoccur with rhythmic regularity. Modern civilization is founded on technology, which is essentially planned and scientific. A blue-print plan for the future would, then, bring our economic system into harmony with the technical efficiency which created it. No rule of thumb procedure is sufficient to bring the world back to a smoother running order...