Word: haling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During Nürnberg's preliminary deliberations, the British had opposed hangings: their long experience in political executions (Essex, Sir Thomas More, Charles I, Robert Emmet, Nathan Hale) had taught them that posterity remembers the victim's dramatic last appearance better than the execution cause. The condemned at Nürnberg did not fail to make the most of their chance. While the late Joachim von Ribbentrop was still swinging from the first gallows, Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel, in well-pressed uniform and gleaming boots, mounted the second scaffold briskly, as though it were a reviewing stand...
...Robert Hale '46, Chairman of the Winthrop House Dance Committee, announced yesterday that the number of persons attending the dances would be limited by fire laws, and that ticket sales would cease when the House capacities were reached...
Robert L. Hale, Jr. '46, 22, Darien, Conn., Winthrop House, Government, House committee, dance committee, Glee Club, House squash...
Church & Pastor. All Souls', probably the most important Unitarian church in the U.S., was founded in 1821 by John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun and Charles Bulfinch, architect of the Capitol. Its most famed minister: Edward Everett Hale. If the size of the congregation is a gauge, Davies has proved a powerful successor; almost overnight he brought about its present overflow. His explanation of his success...
Like all the women in her family, the heroine (Barbara Hale) has had long and bitter experience with gambling men. She wants to make an honest living by running a bookstore, but her hard-earned nickels & dimes are frittered away by Grandpa (Frank Morgan), a lovable old scoundrel who cannot resist a pony or a poker game. When Barbara falls in love, her young man, of course, turns out to be another confirmed gambler (Robert Young...