Word: claspings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury expert in Washington whose job is to read illegible documents. Using a powerful camera, hawk-eyed Expert Farrar last week deciphered this passage: "For the better distinction of the fraternity between themselves, in any foreign country or place, it is resolved that a salutation of the clasp of the hands, together with an immediate stroke across the mouth with the back of the same hand, and a return [salute] with the hand [?] used by the saluted, be hereby established and ordained...
...great painter since Canaletto" (1697-1768), but before Canaletto Italy produced enough great painters for all time. To set forth the latter fact spectacularly to France and the world seemed to Henry de Jouvenel, brilliant French diplomat, journalist and Italophile, an admirable way for Italy and France to clasp hands more tightly against Adolf Hitler. Last week he had assembled in Paris' Petit Palais a collection of Italian old masters that was in fact "the greatest the world has ever seen...
...tied to the rails and his body mangled by a passing train. The music roll that he used for a briefcase was found about 30 yards away, rifled of its contents, together with his keys, his money, and a scattered flurry of visiting cards. There was also a big clasp knife, stained with his blood. Chemical analysis showed that it was the thickened blood of a person already several hours dead...
...bicycle-shaped stud was reminiscent of the goldplated, diamond-studded bicycle he gave to Lillian Russell, who kept it in a plush case when she was not riding it. From the cover of his eyeglass case came the three-inch design of a locomotive. Other items: a camel tie clasp, a collar button representing an early airplane. In a forthcoming biography of "Diamond Jim" Brady, Jeweler Parker Morell estimates that at the time of Mr. Brady's death, War had brought his collection's gross appraised value down to $507,445.10, adds: "Today, Diamond Jim's jewels...
...gave him the China Medal. In 1904, on the bridge of H. M. S. Dryad he plowed the Indian Ocean from the Strait of Malacca to the Gulf of Aden, trained his guns on Mohammed bin Abdullah, the mad Mullah of Somaliland. For that they made him a Medal & Clasp Commander. In 1914, -15, -16, -17 on the flagship of the British Destroyer Flotilla, he trained his guns on Austrian submarines. For that they gave him the D. S. 0. In 1918 he sat at the Admiralty desk of "Director of Operations." For that they made him a Companion...