Word: signets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anne Boleyn's Psalter-the one she carried to the scaffold- was stolen from Hever Castle-in Edenbridge, England, by burglars with a sharp sense of history. Other purloined items: Husband Henry VIII's signet ring, Queen Elizabeth's prayer book...
...captained the hockey and baseball teams (playing shortstop), was elected president of the student council, joined Hasty Pudding, Phoenix Club and Signet Society, among others. He developed a passion for foreign cars. He owned, in turn, a Mercedes, Voisin, Panhard-Levassor, Hispano-Suiza. After graduation, with only average grades, he put in a short tour of duty in the postwar army. Then his father's friend George Lee gave him a job in his investment banking house of Lee, Higginson...
...Harvardman of a pre-war day might have written in his dairy at the end of an average day: "Up betimes at noon; Luncheon at the Signet; a drive in the country with Miss Robbins dinner at the Cock Horse; opening at the Shubert beastly dull; drinks at the Ritz bar, and so to bed." Summer '49 will duly inscribe: "Up at eight for breakfast; thence to Bio D, from there to Ec A, and finally to Dr. Finer's Gov 1 lecture; lunch in the House; sculling on the Charles most of the afternoon; dinner in the House; studied...
...Peasant Party-had formed a coalition in the days when Warsaw was besieged. Karski was ordered to help bring about a similar understanding in Lwow. He went first to Borecki, a prominent 60-year-old politician who still lived in his own apartment and carried poison in his signet ring. The old man said: the underground is the official continuation of the Polish Government. It has three tasks: to protect the people, to record German crimes, to keep an administrative framework functioning in preparation for independence. Within the underground there is complete political freedom for each party to advocate...
...flight, pursuit, escape, triumph, it carries conviction in every incident. Its killings are coldblooded, its sorrows without tears. Dziepatowski, Karski's violinist friend, was caught and executed after he had killed a German agent in a Warsaw washroom. Borecki was caught, could not get the poison from his signet ring in time. He too was killed...