Word: hang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gypsies. As numerous as rabbits in New Zealand are gypsy fortune-tellers in New York this winter. They rent vacant stores as combined homes & professional offices, hang up a few draperies perfumed with sweat & garlic, paw visitors' palms for considerations of $1 to $3 each. If a client wants a really big question answered, he is sometimes instructed to press a $1 bill against the gypsy and blow on it, while the gypsy neatly picks his pocket. For such practices, the police arrested seven gypsy women in uptown Manhattan a fortnight ago, and examined dozens more last week. Be these...
...contemporary gangster instead of Joaquin Murrietta whose career was a trail of blood, bullets, alcohol and love for a pure sweet girl through the days of '49. There is no need to fear that Jake Hamby and his gang will be spry enough to catch and hang so gallant a jack, although they make violent efforts...
...Springfield, Ill., one Jim Hayes, murderer, made a statement: "Women got me into a peck of trouble, and, if I must hang for the murder of a woman, I don't want any more of them around to gloat over the spectacle." There were two women who were eligible to assist at the "spectacle." They were Mrs. Dorothy Tedell, policewoman, and Miss Nina Bowers, nurse. Said the sheriff, uninfluenced by the wishes of Jim Hayes, "These women will be allowed to witness the hanging...
...doing. And certainly it is not the dilettante, however interesting he may be, who is making possible the refinement of living, but the specialist impervious to every other interest who burrows until he unearth his treasure. His importance to society, his conception of his own raison d'etre, hang on his search. And while his undergraduate, training can not have left him bare of all general knowledge, the necessity of keeping apace or in advance of the rush of discovery grants no opportunity for attention, however desirable, to other learning. But the faculty of being perfectly dull is an luborn...
...Secretary Hubert Work (Interior), but for whose mustache and Secretary Mellon's this would be the first clean-shaven Cabinet in U. S. history, frowned quizzically and held something in his hands behind Attorney General Sargent's head. Secretary Curtis Dwight Wilbur (Navy) let his long arms hang at his sides and peered forth from beneath the heaviest dark eyebrows and highest shock of hair in the Cabinet, through the only pair of spectacles (rimless) in the picture...