Word: attach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senior year, Martin had decided that portrait painting would be his vocation. The next step, he felt, would be to attach himself to an artist whose work he admired, whose critical judgment he trusted, and who was not connected with an art school. He became a tutor and general handy-man in the household of Wayman Adams and worked with him for two years...
...Dutch Shultz Flagenheimer and his two bodyguards. His life also was a succession of cruel martyrdoms, a continual flight from the criminally libelous ( as proved in the courts many a time) epithet of Gangster and Racketeer and Public Enemy. Only the newspapers were polite enough to pre-attach the modest adjective "alleged...
...Empire's spokesman of last week, Japanese Military Attaché at Shanghai General Rensuke Isogai, began by saying: "I hope the Chinese people themselves will bring about all the changes necessary to produce a stable Chinese Government under a responsible leader with whom Japan can deal. . . . We believe that eventually China's 400.000,000 people will arise and overthrow the present selfish regime. . . . However if a crisis arises, Japan is fully prepared to step in and make the necessary sacrifices to establish a stable regime. . . . Only two solutions are possible-either the Nanking Government and Generalissimo Chiang...
...British Royal Family in official mourning for Belgium's late Queen Astrid (TIME, Sept. 9). borrowed Edward of Wales's scarlet & blue twin-engined Dragon, winged to Brussels with the Royal Standard flying to represent King George at the funeral, stopped overnight with Britain's Military Attaché, flew home to his spouse in Scotland...
Most Buddha relics are in Siam and in Japan's great shrine at Mt. Hiei. Buddhists attach no miracle-working powers to them. When Bishop Masuyama arrived in San Francisco on the Taiyo Maru, he and the precious bonelet were escorted by numerous Buddhists to their drab, unimposing Temple at Pine and Octavia Streets. All the Buddhists meditated quietly. Then the Bishop took Buddha's bone to his nearby home where, because of its great value, he planned to keep it until a suitable new temple might be built...