Word: medallions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that schnapps tore my stomach up." He also expressed interest in Roman history: "They tell me that Nero had a chick with him when this joint burnt down." But by all odds the high spot came after Satchmo (who has Baptist leanings and wears a Star of David medallion around his neck) said that he had always wanted to meet the Pope. It was arranged; Satchmo and his wife Lucille were granted a special audience. Said Armstrong, before leaving for northern Italy, France and the U.S.: "The people everywhere has been wonderful." How did his reception in Europe this year...
After kneeling together before a 300-year-old altar in San José, the Presidents got off some conventional remarks, then flew to Corumba, where they swapped compliments and gifts. One sharp-eyed observer noted that Hertzog's gift to Dutra, a medallion engraved with the likenesses of the two Presidents, came in a case stamped "made in Buenos Aires...
...Also given the Lasker Award, $500 and a gold medallion: Manhattan's Dr. Richard N. Pierson (a Presbyterian and father of four), for organizing, in 1930, the medical committee of the old Birth Control League, other activities...
...true feelings still are not evident and only become so when her brother, an-unrecalcitrant Nazi, appears on the scene. His fanatical sentiments for a united German people and a repetition of the last war "again, and again, and again" are rejected by her along with the swastika medallion he presses into her palm. That is why she tries to commit suicide when her husband believes she must be a Nazi at heart upon learning her brother's beliefs. It is then that Aunt Nora realizes she cannot let Frieda drown even as the waters swirl over her head...
...Literature. At Kazan University, where he had distinguished himself by refusing to be educated, Tolstoy had read the complete works of Rousseau with such adoration that he wore a medallion portrait of him around his neck. In the army he began to write, still under Rousseau's influence and partly in enthusiasm for Laurence Sterne. In 1852 Tolstoy's Childhood, written in camp, excited the reading public in Moscow and won the praise of Turgenev and of Dostoevsky*-then in exile in Siberia...