Word: autographer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan pier where, with nother melodramatic dash, she sped up he crew's gangplank to the captain's cabin of the Kungsholm. Again shy Miss Garbo merged, sweeping her long lashes at her fellow passengers. Finally an 11-year-old wandered up to request an autograph. This time secretive Greta Garbo vanished for good. In Buffalo, Animal Trainer Clyde Beatty was threatened with arrest by the local S. P. C. A. if he did not stop "prodding and beating" his circus lions. Said the S. P. C. A. agent: "Lions are the nicest and bravest animals...
...celebrated passenger. They found a nervous little man who wore spats, a bright checkered scarf and a fur-lined overcoat which, for no apparent reason, he kept putting on & taking off. Once he had located the spectacles perched on the top of his head, he gladly gave his autograph. He used Russian letters but he set them down vertically, like Chinese. Deciphered, they read: '"Igor Stravinsky...
...autograph which looked like Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's, Walter Toscanini, long-nosed son of Conductor Arturo Toscanini, once paid 2,700 lire ($229.50). Shortly Son Walter, a rare-book dealer, learned that the signature was forged, gave Milan police a tip as to who the forger was. They found the rogue, one Tobia Nicotra, in his workshop, busy making autographs of Christopher Columbus, Lorenzo de' Medici, Warren Gamaliel Harding, many another...
...publishers started a White House library four years ago (TIME, April 7, 1930). Mrs. Roosevelt entertained the delegation at luncheon. Later all went to the President's office where the books were laid out on a table and the President had Mrs. Buck and Messrs. Allen and Allen autograph their contributions. Said Hervey Allen: "I always wondered what became of the old postoffice pens-they come back to the White House...
Exhibited among the sources of Shakespeare's plays is a first English edition (1603) of Montaigne's Essays, second in value only to the British Museum copy which has Shakespeare's autograph on its fly-leaf...