Word: affixation
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...cannot prattle on forever about the doings of the theatrical world for it is primarily to the unusual offerings of the lecture rooms that we should devote ourselves. Hence we hurriedly affix the cultural table d'hote...
...unlike the publicity-mad deities apotheosized nowadays by ogling mayors at all-American beauty contests, Miss Anna Willess Williams sought to keep it a secret when she posed for Engraver George Morgan and let him affix her profile as Goddess of Liberty to the silver dollars issued by the U.S. Mint at Philadelphia in 1878. In 1880 a newspaper man divulged her secret and she was flooded with offers to exploit her beauty-fair complexion, blue eyes, Grecian nose and crown of soft-spun golden hair-on the stage. She refused, staying on as principal of a house-of-refuge...
...Angeles. Down to the ringside of a fine new boxing stadium strutted a gentleman in a tuxedo. There were other gentlemen present in similar garb for this was a night to which reporters would doubtless affix, in their matutinal commentaries, the adjective "gala." The Olympic Stadium, on which $1,000,000 had just been spent, was about to be opened by scuffles between Salvadore and Jessick, lightweights, and Brown and Grandetta, bantams. "Cold Ice Cream, a Spoon in Every Package," cried vendors; candy was offered, soda-pop-the crowd ignored these amenities the better to stare at the tuxedoed gentleman...
Last week, the American Association* passed a rule, instituted an innovation. Ball players will be numbered. Club owners who are members of the association were told to affix to the arms of their players five-inch figures which will appear against the names on the score card. Long has this method of identification been used in football; long has it been awaited in baseball...
...prowess of ex-Judge Landis in the national game which he rules may be restricted to contemplation from the stands, but he has his talents. Let him but affix his eye to the golfer's dimpled pellet and his gaze never wavers save to follow a long, curving flight along the fairway...