Word: hang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago smart pressmen crowded on shipboard about returning Dr. Lorenz. He looked chipper and gay. But the back-fence gossipers noted not his appearance. They wanted some slick phrase on which they could hang a story. Dr. Lorenz gave it to them: "Enjoy all vices in moderation." Fine! The phrase could be wrung into a salacious connotation. Far down in the story one could explain that the doctor meant that folk should work, play, sleep in moderation. The pressmen darted to their writing machines...
...boisterously appreciative of the buffoonery in her part; the other is too tautly expressive of the emotive possibilities of hers. Yet it is but fair to admit that they are attempt-a tremendous undertaking. This "painted ship upon a painted ocean.' is not easy to hang on Boston walls. And they do try to adjust it to the setting, to make it comprehensible...
...Premier Viscount Poullet were about to receive the War standards of several disbanded Belgian regiments at the National Army Museum. Scattered throughout the crowd of 40,000 persons who witnessed this ceremony, the fledgling Fascists created a terrific uproar: "Keep the Army at full strength! Down with Poullet! Hang him! Vive la Belgique immortelle! Hurrah for Prince Leopold! The Army forever...
Politicians smiled at Mr. George's opportunism, recalled that he won the election which sent him to the Peace Conference with the slogan, "Hang the Kaiser and make Germany pay every farthing...
...There are in the U. S. no twin peaks of secondary education like Eton and Harrow, whereon hang all the pedagogical law and whose masters are the prophets. There has been no legendary "Arnold of Rugby" or "Sanderson of Oundle"* in the U. S. nor will there be. So many of our larger secondary schools were founded contemporaneously, and they soon multiplied so rapidly that though each school developed along its own lines, the special character of none had time to impress itself upon the public mind as a national institution before the coming of the public high school system...