Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bavarian adolescent Ludwig Bemelmans was known to his family as a Lausbub, or Katzenjammer kid. At 16, when he was shipped to the U. S., his Uncle Hans summed up a last desperate family hope when he anticipated that the cunning Americans would shear Ludwig's pelt, clip his horns. At 41, Bemelmans is a brilliant contradiction of family prophecy-a famed artist, author and illustrator of four children's classics* (Hansi, Quito Express et al.), and of two adult volumes (My War With the United States, Life Class) which rank with the most engaging of reminiscences...
...mailman's umbrella with slotted handle, to clip on the edge of a mail...
Chattered Eleanor Roosevelt in her syndicated Scripps-Howard column: "Someone sent me a wonderful clip to wear on my nose while swimming. ... I find, however, it is going to require some little time before I can breathe with ease through my mouth alone...
...Brazen arrived on the scene, a masked man had bobbed up from the depths-the first to escape from the foundered submarine. He wore a Davis lung, a contraption resembling the U. S. Momsen lung, consisting of a life belt, an oxygen container, a breathing tube, a nose clip. Half-drowned, he was Captain H. P. K. Oram, commander of the Fifth Submarine flotilla but not of the Thetis. Before he knew that help was at hand he had volunteered to take his chances getting out of the dangerously tilted escape chamber. He and six others, with messages...
...Diver Martin Sibitzky went over the side of the Falcon and was lowered to. the deck of the Squalus. Under the terrible pressure in icy water, work was very slow. It took him 20 minutes to slide a shackle over a ring on the submarine's deck, clip a bolt through, tighten a nut. A cable was attached to the shackle. Before Sibitzky was back aboard the Falcon, nearly an hour later, the rescue bell, reeling in the line he had attached (see diagram), was pulling itself to the deck of the Squalus. There, two men working inside...