Word: hang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...virtually no slaves rose up. Instead Col. Robert E. Lee, then of the U. S. Army, marched up and recaptured the arsenal. Invested to the last with the dignity of intense conviction, John Brown was hanged in a hollow square of 1,500 infantry. His gallows-words were: "I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose...
...April 18, April 25) in the Dedham (Mass.) jail, refer during the trial to Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti as "those bastards"'? Did he say "a bunch of parlor radicals are trying to get those guys off," but that he "would show them and would get those guys hanged"? Did he add that "no Bolsheviki could intimidate Web Thayer," that he "would also like to hang a few dozen radicals...
...chair he should learn to get safely down. Whenever the mother happens to be handling the baby on a bed, for instance, she should not lift him down when she has finished, but should turn him over onto his little tummy, slide him gently backward until his legs hang over the edge of the bed and continue to draw him gently downward until his feet touch the floor. Then she can assist him to drop to hands and knees, and let him creep away for a short distance...
Shrewd, these learned men did not put on their togas haphazard, but allowed themselves to be draped by an expert. He, deft, threw one end of the toga over their left shoulder, allowing the point to hang down in front. The major remainder of the toga was then wound about the body, toward the right, and finally disposed in graceful folds about the right arm. Soon, like so many Caesars, the good doctors strode forth, paraded through Mantua, and grouped majestically while a statue of Virgil, famed Mantuan* was unveiled...
...lint, bread crumbs, hairpins, cigaret butts, needles, roaches, broom, straws, candy, germs. The matted filth made a capital nest for mice. But broom or sweeper cleaned only the surface of the carpet. To get the deeply imbedded dirt the careful housewife had to lift her carpets each spring, hang them on the clothesline in the back yard and then hope for a tramp to come along and whack the dirt out of the carpets. If no bummer appeared, she knew that she would be obliged to quarrel with her husband that evening before he would do the "dirty work." Therefore...