Word: holde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Missouri reception, Truman introduced some thing new in presidential handshaking. He wished, he said, that everyone could go home and say he's shaken the President's hand. So, he instructed, everyone "hold your hands up like this" -clasping his hands like a triumphant boxer. The folks liked it fine...
Jean Arp is a sculptor who hates almost all sculpture except his own. "Especially," he once complained, "these naked men, women & children in stone or bronze . . . who untiringly dance, chase butterflies, shoot arrows, hold out apples, blow the flute, are the perfect expression of a mad world. These mad figures must no longer sully nature...
Died. Henry Warner Slocum, 86, two-time U.S. national tennis champion (1888-89), the second man to hold the title; after long illness; in Manhattan...
March 24, 1945 (on a camp at Bergen-Belsen). "It was a common thing to get hold of a corpse to sleep on, so as to keep dry. Nor was cannibalism a rare phenomenon. One Norwegian saw a prisoner cut the liver out of a dead body...
Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan has vetoed junior and sophomore class plans to hold their joint spring formal at Boston's Hotel Somerset, junior class vice-President Eleanor Larsen announced yesterday...