Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Unless the Disarmament question, over which the United States is greatly concerned, is settled satisfactorily, the Americans will not lift a finger to help Europe further." It was clear from Dr. Schacht's other remarks that he meant by "helping Europe" a voluntary scaling down by the U. S. of what the Allies owe in War debts, thus permitting them to scale down what Germany owes them under the Young Plan. "The Americans are the only people," continued Dr. Schacht warmly, "to whom Germany may look for some possible initiative toward revision of the Young Plan...
...over Germany, from France, Hungary, Poland. Day after day the museums were crowded with throngs of the artistic, anxious to admire the work of Romanesque and Gothic goldsmiths, of the pious, eager to venerate the skeleton arms of St. Lawrence and St. Sigismund, the skull of St. Blasius, the finger of John the Baptist and other anatomical remains...
...they come about. Characteristic mistakes in news texts are transposition ("amy" for "may," "ear" for "era") and substitution ("bottle" for "battle," "love" for "live"). Printing of "slays" for "slaps" once resulted in a $50,000 libel suit against the Telegram (TIME, June 9). Such errors are caused by a finger-slip of the linotype operator, whose typesetting machine has a lower-case keyboard arranged in this manner...
...first two vertical lines, reading downward "etaoin shrdlu," often appear in print. Having felt himself make a slip, the linotypist will run his finger down those two lines to make an obviously pied line of type which the proof staff will surely, but does not always, catch...
...started from London to go around the world "by picking up my traveling and hotel expenses as I went," got as far as Japan, then lost the bet which started her journey by marrying. Sample of that trip: "I was wearing a solitaire diamond . . . slipping it off my finger I dropped it in my corsage . . . I announced : I have lost my ring.' . . . The next morning, imagine my surprise to find he had sent me around one of the loveliest solitaires I possess today." During the War, the book's index relates: "My house [in Paris] was the social...