Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swastika of gleaming pearls. . . ." Himmler, deluded to the end, maintained a "school of eager researchers [who] studied . . . Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, the symbolism of the suppression of the harp in Ulster, and the occult significance of Gothic pinnacles and top-hats at Eton." Hitler himself sometimes rose from his "modest supper of vegetable pie and distilled water to prance upon the table and identify himself with the great conquerors of the past...
...went home and lay down on his bed. He ate his meager supper silently, then went back upstairs. In the darkness of that night, when the others in the house were fast asleep, Erich climbed the ladder to the attic. In the silence and alone, he hanged himself...
...months, Italy's art experts had debated how to preserve Da Vinci's masterpiece, the Last Supper, which Allied bombings exposed to the weather after it had already faded and blistered through the years (TIME, Dec. 9). Last week, an Italian Government Advisory Commission came up with a tricky solution: they would build an air-conditioned frame around...
First prize (?150) went to the Hon. Hugh Fraser, Conservative M.P., who had wisely bought a notoriously intelligent companion. Then the happy hunters had a ham and tongue supper, afterward moved to London's Orchid Room. The party broke...
Composer Shostakovich attended most of the festival's 38 concerts, but stood unobtrusively in the rear of the hall during rehearsals of his own works. In his free time, he browsed in Prague music stores for music-scores and records-bought new clothes, attended a supper party at the U.S. Embassy, where he ate a lot, drank little, showed a great liking for American cigarets...