Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words "Vere papa mortuus est." With his inquisitive yet reverent eyes. Observer Morgan noted that the Cardinal did not observe the quaint Papal ceremony for determining Death once used but since fallen into disuse: "The ceremony consisted in tapping the Pope on the forehead with a small silver hammer and calling him by his first name three times...
...their recent nocturnal spat in his hallway (TIME, Oct. 4), Secretary Carlotta Monti announced she would sue Funnyman W, C. Fields for $200,000. Said Secretary Monti's lawyer: "She will accuse Fields of breaking a walking stick over her head and belaboring her with a rubber hammer." Snorted Funnyman Fields: "I've been sued before-and by experts...
...hard work, Farmer Tiflin lays out $5 to breed their own mare Nellie. Jody dedicates himself completely to Nellie's prenatal care, to giving his father more than his five-dollar's worth. When complications develop at the delivery, the hired hand kills Nellie with a hammer, and in a gory Cesarean delivers Jody his promised colt...
Charles Harmon Foster, Rochester, New York, B.S., 1935, University of Rochester, Division of the Budget, New York State; Philip Gibbon Hammer, Brightwater, New York, A.B., 1936, University of North Carolina, Senator Robert M. LaFollette; George Mason Ingram, Nashville, Tennessee, Valley Authority; Robert Hey Rawson, North Cohasset, A.B., 1936, Harvard, Treasury Department
...stiff Byzantine tradition right to the outbreak of the World War, never reached the heights of similarly Byzantine painting in Siena, Italy, but did produce a few recognized masters in the 15th Century and during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Of these greatest icon painters the Hammer Galleries showed a full two dozen. All were emphatically for sale...