Word: claspings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salvation Army mobilized for peace-prayer services throughout the world. In London spry, 72-year-old General Evangeline Booth led 500 of her followers to a hall on the bank of the Thames, put them through prayer-drill with martial commands, "Shut your eyes!" "Clasp your hands!" "Get down on your knees!" "Stand...
...years ago. Since then the British attitude on Ethiopia, the French attitude on Spain, have thrown them into each other's arms. "My visit to Germany," read the Italian Dictator's official advance announcement last week, "is wholly a matter of the heart. . . . The two peoples will clasp hands . . . and will march side by side in the future, for this future belongs to us. . . . My visit is a demonstration for a common policy of STRONG PEACE...
...wrapped in clotted swiss, his head in a sitz bath for a last shampoo. Everywhere, scattered about the place, were grim reminders of his genteel background: a cold bottle of Tavel on the lowboy, a spray of pinks in a cut-glass bowl, an album held with a silver clasp, and his social-security card copied in needlepoint and framed on the wall. We begged the privilege of an interview. . . . Mr. Tilley let the comb drop into his lap, and turned half around, his magnincent profile etched in light from the window...
...just as she was about to sit down in one of the two "bridal chairs" - there is no altar in a Dutch church - but Prince Bernhard kept his bride from falling, and later, when a diamond bracelet fell off her Royal Highness' arm, he smoothly restored it. The clasp of her diamond necklace held...
...years ago Adolf Hitler flew to Venice to clasp hands with Benito Mussolini. After a vegetarian lunch and a heart-to-heart the two Dictators found no matter of importance on which they could then cooperate. Meanwhile, Il Duce had conceived the project of making Italy, Britain, Germany and France the dominating hierarchy of Europe. These nations actually signed his Four-Power Pact only to quarrel over the Ethiopian war and Der Führer's tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles. Last week began a great new effort by Italy and Germany to erect a European hierarchy...