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...have told us about the sleeping suit, and if I may be defensively leading for a minute, did the child have any thumb protectors...
...wire thumb guard which had a piece of tape through the sides of it and was fastened around the wrist of the sleeping suit on the outside...
...nurse proves to be a fake but the museum prospers. Presently Barnum has a bigger one where General Tom Thumb does a minuet with his tiny wife. Bailey Walsh goes to purchase Jumbo from the London Zoo. When he returns with Jenny Lind (Virginia Bruce) instead, Barnum's troubles start. A Swedish masseur teaches him a toast. When he uses it at a banquet, Jenny Lind thinks he is trying to insult her. She scuttles back to Sweden, the neglected museum goes bankrupt, and Barnum is forlornly slouching on a park bench when his old friend General Thumb discovers...
...second oldest bank in Manhattan first opened for business at No. 40 Wall Street in 1799. Unable to obtain a bank charter from a New York legislature which was under the thumb of Alexander Hamilton, a slick politician named Aaron Burr wangled a charter for a concern to supply the City of New York with "pure & wholesome water." As all the world now knows, there was tucked away in that charter a harmless-looking clause permitting The Manhattan Co. to transact any financial business within...
...this was made in the first quarter when whiskey in a window was still a novelty, only $1,900,000 in the second quarter after people had learned that even whiskey in a window could be pretty bad. Ten times annual earnings per share is an old thumb rule for stock prices but so unpromising did investors rate the liquor outlook last week that National Distillers stock at $17 per share was selling at six times half-year earnings or three times earnings on an annual basis...