Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrested the proprietress and three bartenders. Visitors to her Mecca of Merriment last week saw Miss Livingstone in a black dress dotted with symbolic sunflowers, saw also a large house, three of whose floors are occupied respectively by dancehall and stage, salon and bar, ping-pong and Tom Thumb golf rooms. Specially designed murals of toping fauns and bare-breasted ladies had been installed. Cabaret entertainment, dancing and games were provided without cover charge. Payment for refreshments were arranged, as in her "former place," by selling books of $1 tickets, one (or more) to be torn off by the waiter...
...ferreting real estate agent with an eviction notice scaled the highest point on Manhattan, a cliff known to oldsters as God's Thumb, to city directories as Washington Heights, and flushed Sculptor George Grey Barnard into unexpected publicity last week...
...British-U. S. peace. In 1925 John Davison Rockefeller Jr. bought for $600,000 The Cloisters, the beautifully arranged collection of Gothic sculpture and woodcarving which Sculptor Barnard had assembled. Mr. Rockefeller presented it as an annex to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Billings estate on God's Thumb, the rambling stone stable of which Sculptor Barnard used as a studio, though purchased by Mr. Rockefeller in 1917, was leased to Sculptor Barnard. There he continued to live and work undisturbed. With his financial difficulties solved, Sculptor Barnard disappeared into his studio and out of the public prints...
Recently the Rockefeller estate decided to offer 56 acres of land including God's Thumb to the city as a public park. Eviction notices were served last week on all residents, including Sculptor Barnard. Reporters, anxious to see what he had been doing for the past ten years, rushed up to interview...
...Dooley" commented on Booker T. Washington's dining at the White House: "I don't mind sayin' that I'd rather ate with a coon thin have wan wait on me. I'd sooner he'd handle his own food thin mine. F'r me, if anny thumb must be in th' gravy, lave it be white if ye please...