Word: attached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completely by those to whom it should apply; but the state at large is touched by the whole affair. It is an example of the sort of precipitate absurdity which has for years furnished Mr. Mencken with subjects for his articles, and which has created all the connotations which attach to the word, "America...
Awarded. To Robert Thompson Pell, retiring as press attaché of the U. S. Embassy at Paris: the Cross of the French Legion of Honor. To Silk Man Joseph Gerli: the decoration of Grand Officer of the Crown of Italy for boosting Italian art traditions...
...when next summer she leads nine other battleships, three aircraft carriers, eight heavy cruisers, 79 destroyers and 67 submarines to their rendezvous just north of the Equator. A trim, polite seadog who is fond of bridge, Admiral Kobayashi is well known in Washington where he once served as naval attaché at the Japanese Embassy...
...study terra cotta glazing and firing in China. He returned a convert to Oriental philosophy, living entirely on nuts, and set up a studio in the old Hawaiian building, left over from the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915. His unworldly attitude soon caused the sheriff of San Francisco to attach all his personal belongings. Nut-eating Beniamino Bufano moved to Paris...
Superior officers had by this time noted Samurai Araki's keenness. He was promoted to the General Staff. During the World War, when Japan seized Germany's foothold on the Chinese mainland (Kiaochow) but was later forced to disgorge it, Staff Officer Araki was Japanese military attaché in Russia, gained invaluable knowledge of modern practices of slaughter by incessant observation trips up and down the Eastern Front...