Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Marguerite Walter Neppach, 33, daughter of Austria's famed exiled Conductor Bruno Walter; by her husband's hand (shooting); in Zurich. Herr Neppach then killed himself...
Died. Clendenin J. Ryan, 56, son of Capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan; by his own hand (gas); in Manhattan. Capable executor of his father's $135,000,000 estate, of which he and Brother. John Barry got ample shares and Brother Allan a pair of shirt studs, he was active in finance until the last despite diabetes which reduced his six-foot-two frame from...
...hours later Claude Elkins felt "sort of cold and sticky all over." In his hand was a telegram informing him that he was the only ticket holder of the winning combination, that he had won the whole pool of $10,772.40-largest pari-mutuel payoff in the history of U. S. horse racing...
...aggressive play with brilliant tactics, kept the partisan crowd of 1,500 in seesawing shrieks of delight and dismay before young McDaniel won the match and title, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Besieged by dusky damsels, Champion McDaniel was swept off the court, signed his autograph until his hand was numb. They all thought he was good enough to represent the U. S. on the Davis Cup team...
...among its crew were Harvard undergraduates, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow Jr. (see above) and the wife and eldest daughter of Harvard's Professor Samuel Eliot Morison. Professor Morison sat tall and erect in the bow, clutching a copy of Christopher Columbus' journal in one hand, a notepad and pencil in the other. The professor and his companions were setting out on a Harvard expedition to retrace part of Columbus' eastward and westward voyages and find out how good a navigator Columbus...