Word: clara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomacy, blinking before a Rising Sun in the Far East and plagued by strange new stars in the political firmament of Europe, last week set a hopeful course under the moon of the Caribbees. A sleek black peace ship, the Grace Liner Santa Clara, steamed southward toward ancient Lima, Peru, and the eighth Pan American Conference. Aboard were a distinguished U. S. delegation and its distinguished chairman, who at Montevideo in 1933 and at Buenos Aires in 1936 changed the Latin American picture of Uncle Sam from a giant with a club into a kindly Tennessee judge. As the Santa...
Ends, Holland, Cornell, and Young, Oklahoma. Tackles, Beinor, Notre Dame, and Wolff, Santa Clara. Guards, Heikkinen, Michigan, and Smith, Southern California. Center Aldrich, Texas Christian. Backs, O'Brien, Texas Christian, Goldberg, Pittsburgh, MacLeod, Dartmouth, and Bottari, California...
First team ends: Louis Daddio, Pittsburgh, and John Wysocki, Villanova; tackles: Joseph Beinor, Notre Dame, and Alvin Wolff, Santa Clara; guards; Ralph Heikkinen, Michigan, and Bob L. Suffridge, Tennessee; center; Charles Aldrich, Texas Christian; backs: David O'Brien, Texas Christian, Eric Tipton, Duke, Parker Hall, Mississippi, and Marshall Goldberg, Pittsburgh...
Several days after the children were twinned Dr. Moran noticed that Clara was growing stronger, John weaker. Her red blood cells were increasing, his decreasing. As the tube stretched to 20 inches John grew sick and dizzy, finally developed acute anemia and lapsed into a coma. Giving up the graft experiment, Dr. Moran quickly cut the Siamese twins apart, found that Clara, like a vampire, had drained out John's blood through a net of capillaries which had formed on John's end of the tube. No capillaries had formed on her end of the tube...
...parents, he went to five schools as War drove his family in and out of the city, graduated from the famed Lycée Condorcet, which schooled Proust, then studied Sanskrit at the Paris School of Oriental Languages. He had published a thin book of prose poems, married Clara Goldschmidt, the daughter of a well-to-do German Jewish family, when at 22 he sailed for Indo-China on an archeological expedition...