Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidges (who are not attending public theatricals) assembled with a score of guests. Howard Thurston arrived with a moving van full of paraphenalia. With ducks, geese, pigeons, rabbits he prestidigitated. Then he took the President's watch, a gift from the Massachusetts Legislature, smashed it with a hammer, called for a loaf of bread from the kitchen. It was brought. Mrs. Coolidge cut it; and who would believe it??the watch appeared within, quite whole...
...hammer of solid gold, its haft of carved ivory, studded with rubies, emeralds, aquamarines, lapis lazuli and engraved with solemn mottoes; a trowel, also of gold, also studded and graven; in a leather case, embossed and inlaid with gold and gems?these gifts of the episcopacy of the world were placed in the hands of Pope Pius XI. Pope Pius was pleased, elated...
Among the inscriptions on the presents was "Anno jubilaes MCMXXV", which is to say that 1925 is a Holy Year of Jubilee. On Christmas Eve, bearing his hammer and trowel according to the custom, Pope Pius will take his way to the Holy Door of St. Peter's. There he will strike upon the door with the hammer, crying out: "Open unto me the Gates of Justice." At the third stroke, masonry which has walled up the door since the last holy year (1825) will be made to crumble, the holy portal will gape. Assisted by Jubilee penitents, the Pope...
...long ago, Theodor Fritsch, Editor of the anti-Semitic Hammer, called Max Warburg, head of the Hamburg banking house of that name, a "Secret Kaiser"; accused him and one Dr. Karl Melchior, together with Jewish financiers in general, of sacrificing patriotic interests for their own gain...
...track meet, which started almost a month age. A number of football athletes are expected to get into action this afternoon in the four weight events which will be held. Competition is open to all students in the college. Today's program will consist of the shot put, the hammer throw the discus, and the javelin threw and will start at 3 o'clock this afternoon...