Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian had his palm read by a fortuneteller. She said: "You will find yourself without money, but you will make your living from women, and it is by them that you will succeed." His family laughed, moved to Paris and tried to train him to be a diplomat. Instead, Christian plunged into the arty life of Paris of the '20s. Velvet-collared, bowler-hatted and rich, Christian hobnobbed with advanced musicians like Poulenc and Satie, artists like Jean Cocteau, Christian Berard and Salvador Dali, opened an art gallery with his father's financial backing...
...there were reports of a brief mutiny in the Saudi army instigated by Egyptian-trained officers. Last June 4,000 workers struck at Aramco just before Saud paid a formal visit, greeted him shouting of "oppression" by foreign imperialists. Saud's police beat several demonstrators to death with palm stems. Then, when Nasser flew to Dhahran for a conference, Saud was annoyed to find that the cheers for Nasser were far louder than for himself...
...court pondered the evidence, calling up specialist after specialist to give his expert opinion, Dr. Adams smiled blandly, took his notes and occasionally chuckled at the mispronunciation of some difficult medical terms. In the palm-strewn lobbies of Eastbourne's hotels, aged widows gossiped and fingered their heavily insured necklaces, and retired colonels humphed over the bad news from Egypt. But topic No. i was something none of their newspapers could say under Britain's strict libel and contempt laws: that the doctor may also have quickened the deaths of a dozen or more other Eastbourne patients...
Souchak, defending champion Jimmy Demaret, and Ken Venturi will play it off today over the Palm Springs California course...
Died. Louis Semple Clarke, 90, automobile pioneer who built his first car in 1896, a year afterward founded the Pittsburgh Motor Vehicle Co. (later the Autocar Co.), designed the first U.S. sparkplug and circulating oil system, built the nation's first shaft-driven auto; in Palm Beach...