Word: claspings
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...inspectorial eye twinkled almost as brightly as the diamond clasp on Mrs. Herter's triple strand of pearls. The declaration showed that the Herters had prudently limited their foreign purchases to exactly the amount-$200 worth-which they could bring in free. The inspectors smiled, perhaps to congratulate onetime Collector Edwards upon having such modest, honest friends, and began looking into Herter trunks in a way that promised to be pleasantly perfunctory...
...WALKS IN BEAUTY-Dawn Powell—'Brentano ($2.50). There is a theory, which many U. S. writers and critics clasp tightly in their teeth, that the Great American Novel will come, like young Lochinvar, out of the Great Middle West. As a result, the saga of Gopher Prairie has been rewritten backward, forward, and on the head of a pin. In its latest form it is the story, mainly, of Dorrie Shirley, a sensitive little girl who had a warm disposition, a prim and unsympathetic sister called Linda, and a grandmother called "Aunt Jule," who ran a ramshackle hotel...
...stepped forward to pen the life of the wizard. Of course, there are the columns of the press and they have done fairly well, but hurried reporters are not able to do justice to this subject. The spirit of the dead Horatio and the spirit of the living Michael clasp hands, regretfully, almost tearfully. Boswell without Johnson, Johnson without Boswell: fate was kind to Mr. Alger, and is kinder to Mr. Meehan; but it left a vulnerable spot, and for both the times are out of joint...
...baffled by the thoughtful bearded face of Tagore, the horselike countenance of the Duchess of Marlborough, the several gay and wayward studies of Peggy Jean (Mr. Epstein's child). When they looked across the room at No. 21, they wondered what wild emotion caused the bronze woman to clasp her hands and open her mouth in so inane a fashion. Some of the sharper babbits decided that she was laughing at the companion works of Sculptor Epstein; then they looked at their catalogs and saw, "No. 21: Weeping Woman." They turned to the bronze face again. Slowly there crept...
...constantly being chosen to leave home. When he goes, the three remaining brothers are in the station, on the dock or at the flying field. They wave goodbye, and, when the absent one returns, he finds them once more at the field, dock, or station, pre-.pared to clasp his hand. All four are sons of the King and Emperor George V; and neither storm nor snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these brothers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds...