Word: handiworks
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...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...
...thousand feet under the Mecsek hills near Pecs, 1,200 miners picked wearily last week at the poor coal that is Hungary's best. On the railroad sidings above were 15,000 unsold carloads of their low-grade handiwork. The mine owner, Danube Steam Navigation Co., largely British-owned, had done its best to spread work, a few hours a day per man. But that came to only $2 a week. These Magyar miners and their families were starving. It had come to the point last week where their mouths watered at sight of the fat little pit ponies...
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...
...here for the annual convention of the College of Surgeons, were shown the medical rooms at the Field House, and Doctor Thorndike demonstrated for them methods of treating players' injuries. Due to the large list of casualties lately there was quite a few sample exhibits of the Doc's handiwork...