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Word: fingered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remember, I preferred the two finger category of schoolmarms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Uvalde, Texas, chunky John Nance Garner took inquisitive Cartoonist Reg Manning, of the Phoenix Arizona Republic, into the chicken yard behind his buff-brick house, pointed a stubby finger at his fowls (that come a-running when he calls), said: "If I am called, I will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: On the Hunt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...ever had been shot. It never was. They made another. Then Selznick made another. In the next year Jo Swerling, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, John Van Druten, Michael Foster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winston Miller, John Balderston, Edwin Justus Mayer all had at least a little finger in the scenario. But next to Sidney Howard's work, the bulk of the scripting, as David Selznick admits, was done by David Selznick. He is still very touchy because a shooting script was not ready even by the time that the final scenes were filmed. When the filming was practically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Starch) ; his brother-in-law, Commercial Research's famed Dr. Daniel Starch. A few weeks ago Mr. Mange went calling on Jesse Jones to see about arranging an RFC loan. Soon Associated got the idea thai Mr. Jones's price for making the loan was a finger in management. Last week, Associated acquired a new president, a veteran Washington lawyer named Roger Whiteford, who is given to lecturing on the trial of Christ; who is a buddy of the Hopson sisters' lawyer, ex-Attorney General Homer Cummings. Pleading ill health, Junta Member Mange resigned as president, board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personnel: Mr. Jones's Proteges | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Saginaw, Mich., Marcelino Mareno, explaining how he had shot off the tip of a finger 26 years before, aimed an "unloaded" gun at it, shot off what was left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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