"fanelights"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/1/2006 11:26 AM, you wrote:
>In NYC in the '50s I sometimes heard "fins !" in precisely the
>general sense indicated in the 1870 quot.  The fingers of each hand
>were crossed as an accompanying visual signal.

My faint and unreliable recollection too.  Was the gesture sometimes
crossing the index finger of one hand over the other?

Joel

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