Word: hang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state of New York is attempting to curb fake spiritualism by prohibiting the advertising of fortune tellers, clairvoyants, and mediums," continued Mr. Dunworth. "Now they hang out a shingle with the inscription 'Church of Truth', or 'Lotus Temple' and make twice as much money...
...Holy Terror is a melodrama of the coal mines. Its chief character is a lawless fellow whom eyerybody, including detectives hired to break a strike, was anxious to hang by the neck until he was dead. There is a murder charge against him toward the end to urge on the slightly lagging plot. There are revolvers, lovers and a ti'ial scene. Taken in one critical gulp they go down as only pretty good...
...Evening Standard recalled that Leverhulme had once commissioned Augustus John to paint a portrait that could hang on a panel above his fireplace. Finished, the work was so big that the head alone filled the space. Leverhulme placed it there, cut the rest away...
...Story. At the end of this book, two portraits hang in an old city house. Out of one frame, in white muslin and blue sash, looks a beguiling red-headed Civil War nurse as she was just before she sacked an Italian count, married an ardent young mechanic and quit her patroon relatives to live in the young West...
...tariff. Steel is considered a basic material, and must be had cheap. British steel costs about $10 per ton more than foreign steel. England, true to her free-trade principles, believes in buying the foreign steel when it is cheaper and letting her home manufacturers of steel go hang...