Word: handiwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carefully Hangman Hanna adjusted the arm straps, tightened around Killer Barrett's neck the stout $65 rope which he had used in 18 other hangings. Over Barrett's head he slipped a black satin hood, the handiwork of his sister-in-law. Then he walked calmly down the steps, confident that his 69th job would be without flaw. A deputy sheriff sprang the trap. Ten minutes later George W. Barrett was dead. At daybreak he was buried in Indianapolis' Holy Cross Cemetery...
...Visible only under a microscope is the smallest inscription in the world, 127 let ters of a verse from St. Luke, written by Ox Fibre Brush Co.'s president. Alfred McEwen of New York. Latest McEwen handiwork in the collection is 294 letters of the Lord's Prayer done with a one-hair brush in a space no bigger than a hole made by a needle...
...gift an arrant forgery to add to its notable collection of autographs. The document, purporting to be a brief letter in the handwriting of Benjamin Franklin, was gladly accepted by the library, for, according to Manhattan Autograph Expert Thomas F. Madigan, it was a fine specimen of the handiwork of Robert Spring, one of the most notorious autograph forgers in U. S. history. While hundreds of unwitting collectors have cabinets filled with Robert Spring autographs, wiseacres are willing to pay large sums for the few letters to which that rascal signed his real name...
...oceans. The Sahara and Arabian Deserts look fairly bright, the clouds three times brighter still. In the African spring he sees the Nile valley turn dark with new vegetation. But unless his instrument is considerably more powerful than telescopes on Earth, he can see of man's handiwork not a trace...
Victor, the Russian valet, stepped back and proudly regarded his handiwork: Sergei Koussevitzky, the best-dressed man in Boston, imposing in cutaway and flowing black cravat. On Symphony Hall stage the players tuned to the oboe's A, while Brahmins found their places. All stood when Koussevitzky entered, made his calm & studied bow. When the first piece was over he did an unaccustomed thing. He grinned. To open the Boston Symphony's 54th season Koussevitzky had chosen a rich, compact passacaglia which he had written himself. Bostonians had been curious. Koussevitzky, they knew, was the world...