Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still in Nantucket, where he had spent the summer. But he pulled on an ill-fitting tank of compressed air, a face mask with a broken strap, and stepped into the water. The mask leaked, and the water was so muddy that he "couldn't see the glass in front of my face." But on the sixth dive, groping through three feet of mud on the bottom, his hand touched the dead boy's leg. Minutes later the ambassador had hauled the body up to the bank...
...clock one morning last week a jostling crowd-tourists, sailors and townspeople, elbow to elbow with priests and nuns-had swarmed into the 13th century Cathedral of San Gennaro in Naples. Promptly on the hour, a mustached monsignor walked slowly to a side altar, carrying a glass-windowed silver reliquary containing two glass vials partly filled with a dark, solid, opaque substance. As the priest turned the reliquary around and around before the golden-faced bust of St. Januarius, Naples' patron saint, onlookers prayed: "Come and grant us your favor, 0 beautiful saint, great champion of Jesus Christ...
Rooms piled with lamps, sofas, baby-carriages, and bric-a-brac fill the three floors and basement. Dust has collected on glass tasseled lampshades of satin and on old sewing tables and desks. Neo-classical busts and statues are sprinkled about along with kerosene lamps. Supplementing the collection is a stuffed gila monster and a faded red and grey banner which reads, "Andover 34, Exeter...
...fishing boat. It was carved by a Harvard man. He was in the Philippines when he made it. I think the University sent him to France about ten years ago. Look at this little table. I've turned down over a hundred dollars for it." After pointing out some glasses, Goldman advised '"Listen to the ring. That's the sign of good crystal. He tapped the rim of a glass and nodded approval of the sound...
...There was always an invitation there for the letter-carrier," Andy recalls; "they had quite a session there at one spring dance. There was a room for punch, a room for beer, and a room for liquor. I went into the liquor room and they handed me a half-glass of whiskey--they had quite a session. The party wound up, they'd go to the dance, and I went home to my wife...