Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bricklayer or mason who does not religiously observe the practice of frequent rest periods. As for the sympathetic audience perhaps the foreman could be drafted into the service and occasionally hold a confidential little tete-a-tete with the more forlorn workers under him. If Tony smashes his thumb under a sledge hammer the foreman could get him to talk about the wife and kiddies and thus get his mind off the injured member, or if Manuel should inadvertently fall asleep between rest periods the foreman should not try to awaken him but should sit down and listen sympathetically...
...Vatican. They reached there at a particularly bad time for his ecclesiastical advancement, for Pius X was then preparing his stern encyclical letter, Pascendi Dominici Gregis, against modernism. That letter was published in 1907, just as Professor Hanna was nominated for coadjutor archbishop of San Francisco. The papal thumb went harshly down on his promotion...
...magazine And we build a Tom Thumb golf course...
...optimist-the pessimist thinks all girls are bad and the optimist hopes and prays they are. . . . Business is getting better and better and although it may look bad around these parts they say business in Chicago is still 'holding up'." Following the style of "Tom Thumb" colyums for the front page, Hearst morning papers and clients of Universal Service & King Features Syndicate last week began printing " 'Baering' Down on the News," by Arthur ("Bugs") Baer, oldtime Hearstling. A Baer line of last week: "Political economy should include a Save-Your-Bribes Week...
...Mathis is the fourth largest seller in France. Durant will retail it at around $500, hence compete with the American Austin. Testimony to the popularity of torn-thumb cars was the report last week that American Austin Car Co. Inc., with normal capacity of 60,000 a year, had 184,000 unfilled orders on hand June...