Word: hang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once the onetime War Lord appeared smiling, affable, passed around his famous fat cigars. The accident was regrettable, he said, but easily explained. He had been "handling" a new pistol?presumably much as a Tilden swishes a new racket?to get its hang and feel. He had not noticed Prince Hsien Kai or anyone else in the garden. Somehow or other, while he "handled" the pistol, it had gone...
...year-old Negro, stole a mule worth less than $100. He was sentenced to serve twenty years at hard labor. After serving twelve years he was still in the chain gang, and as a result of his treatment attempted to escape. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang, although not a witness saw the killing. Mule Hicks is a Negro. Who cares...
...thrill goggle-eyed gumchewers. Last week Chinese Consul-General Samuel Sung Young, fearing that such exhibits might prejudice China's case in the U. S., appealed against Mr. Gumpertz to Manhattan's Mayor Walker who promised to investigate. Mr. Gumpertz said the most he would do would be to hang up NOW ABOLISHED signs...
...propaganda sheet called the Daily Ananias was rained down upon the Blue Forces. To break enemy morale, it stated: "Blues Poison More Wells," "Prisoners Surrender to Reds Voluntarily," "Blues Fear Red Bayonets," "Mutinous Blue Soldiers Hang Colonel...
...level, practically a vacuum. Highly tenuous though that upper medium is, it is nonetheless dense enough to burn up meteors by its friction. Like the lower atmosphere it carries electrical charges. Proof of that is the great heights from which the curtains of Aurora Borealis, an electrical phenomenon, hang. If Professor Goddard, or anyone else, can learn the exact nature of that high zone it is conceivable that man will be able to put it to some purpose...