Pointing a Finger (1938)

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   The great Fred Shapiro gets a mention in William Safire's "On Language"
column this Sunday.  From the NY TIMES MAGAZINE on the web site:

   Fred Shapiro of Yale, compiling the hungrily awaited Yale Dictionary of
Quotations, has dug up this citation from a 1941 Social Forces
magazine..."This finger-pointing is not only unnecessary but false."

("Hungrily" awaited?  Is Fred writing about food, too?--ed.)

   I didn't read it, but the NYPL has this book title:

Toomey, John A.
PROPAGANDA IN THE PRESS:
POINTING A FINGER AT PRESS PROPAGANDA
New York: America Press
1938