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...Gesturing with the right hand about half closed, the forefinger making a circle with the thumb while other fingers are relaxed...
...Minister of Corporations, omnipresent Benito Mussolini has a thumb in Italy's big industrial pies, a finger in her little ones. Last week he sharply curbed the few Italian capitalists who have figured out ways to beat Depression and are still making fairly fat profits. Through the docile Chamber and Senate, // Duce pushed a law barring private capitalists from enlarging their plants or building new ones without express permission from the State...
...medium of the local telephone exchange, where the operators are so well known they are always called by name, act as a matter of course as the village news bureau. In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb. Even without his initial incentive of being a parson's son Dr. Bull's appetites are scandalously hearty. An increasing faction in New Winton, led by First Lady Mrs. Banning and puritanical Matthew Herring, find them an abomination, mutter also at the slapdash way Doc Bull treats...
...Odyssey, he says, is "neat, close-knit, artful and various" but "never huge or terrible," never "great art. ... In this tale every big situation is burked and the writing is soft." Homer he calls "as muddled an antiquary as Walter Scott. . . . He thumb-nailed well" but his characterization was "thin and accidental." Though some modern scholars agree with him that The Odyssey is a much later work than The Iliad, most will think Shaw goes too far in saying "this Homer lived too long after the heroic age to feel assured and large." Penelope is "the sly cattish wife," Odysseus...
Wall Street admits that Old Man Venner is probably without a legal peer in corporation transactions. He used to thumb over documents himself but now maintains a sizeable research staff. Intensely secretive, only he can tell how many of his big suits were settled out of court. Officials of a company with branches scattered throughout South America remember that a Venner disciple discovered he was entitled, as a stockholder, to inspect all the books-and demanded his right. After balancing the costs of transporting records from all its remote branches to Manhattan and back, the officers decided...