Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perpetually pinched for money, kept close under their father's thumb are the two oldest sons of the "Richest Man in the World," His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad. To a sporting acquaintance at Gleneagles, Scotland, last summer the Crown Prince of Hyderabad stated his views on marriage thus: "I like horses. They are more dependable than women. If a horse throws you it will stand by until you get on your feet...
...Jean Dixon, conceives the idea that Hollywood needs a school of vocal culture and that she is willing to play the adept pedagogue with the support of Jerry and George. They all go out to the land of plenty and for the remainder of the piece the playwrights thumb their noses at America's greatest industry. It is the story of the rise of George, the dull, to Hollywoods greatest and most well known producer and director, a rise founded upon a series of the most gigantic and glaring blunders that the mind can conjure. At one time, for example...
Queen Mary smiled provingly. Mr. Gandhi was not in "morning dress" as the royal invitation had requested (TIME, Nov. 9) but he was wearing a loincloth wider by a thumb's breadth than usual, and a shawl of homespun. Queen Mary saw nothing unseemly, betrayed the merest flicker of interest as she espied the Mahatma's dangling dollar watch...
...liked Cambridge. We liked its great rambling quadrangles. We liked its utter lack of echoing, brick-bare dormitory halls. We liked the white colonial apartment doors, unpierced by mail slots for ad minions to thumb with circulars and manifestes. We liked the huge, gentlemanly apartments, with floors of oak and gleaming waxed rubber, with showers in every bathroom and two washbowls...
Shrewd, humble, honest and prodigiously rotund, Wilbert Robinson has been manager of the Brooklyn Baseball team, named for him "the Robins," since 1913. Before that, as catcher for the Baltimore Orioles, most celebrated team in baseball history, he once bit off an injured thumb so he could finish a game. Last week, the directors of the Brooklyn Club, possibly the most valuable property in the National League, decided they needed a new manager, selected one Maximillian Carnarius ("Max Carey"), onetime Pittsburgh outfielder...