Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tempest churned up by the sandalwood fans in Saigon has rustled palm fronds and stirred feminine emotions across the land. Last week all Saigon was astir with the story of Co Ha, an 18-year-old maiden of Going Ving, a thatched-hut village 40 miles southwest of the capital...
...When I get into the gate, it's instinct mainly. I hold both reins in one hand, crossed in my palm. I twist a forefinger around a lock of the horse's mane. I never have a tight rein because the horse would rear up. He has to have a free head, but you have to have that pull on your finger. You have to sense when the gate is going to spring. When I leave the gate, sometimes I take my finger off the horse right away, sometimes not. You keep the horse loose. Then, out of the gate...
Died. Robert Ralph Young, 60, railroad tycoon; by his own hand (gunshot); in Palm Beach, Fla. (see BUSINESS...
Died. Philip Danforth Armour, 64, onetime first vice president (and grandson of the founder) of Chicago's meat-packing Armour & Co., who resigned (in 1931) in a huff after he failed to become its president; of a heart attack; in his Palm Beach, Fla. home...
Cast adrift by the Government, Major Anderson stretched his orders beyond the snapping point, moved his men from Moultrie to Fort Sumter by night. When Southerners in Washington got the word, they rushed to the Old Public Functionary, who crushed out his cigar in the palm of his hand. "My God!" cried James Buchanan. "Are calamities never to come singly! I call God to witness . . . that this is not only without but against my orders...