Word: hang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stimulate the quiet and charm of a New Hampshire hillside; and on the morning after, the casual visitor is greeted by a scene not unlike that of the familiar New England cut-over slashing. Some meagre punster who professes to se humor in all things, might call t a hang-over slashing, but not many will give him the consideration of a fleeting attention...
...United We Stand'' would not do as a motto for Austria. In fact, during the cabinet crisis of 36 days which ended last week, the four principal parties in the republic battled each other to a standstill so often that it seemed almost time to hang up the D. W. F. sign−"Divided We Fall." Almost every day War Minister Karl Vaugoin stormed that the republic ought to fall, repeatedly demanded proclamation of a dictatorship...
Frank Billings Kellogg was caught last week by London newsgatherers between the studio of Philip Alexius Laszlo de Lombos, who is painting a Kellogg portrait to hang in the State Department at Washington, and a golf course. Said Mr. Kellogg: "I said almost everything one could say in regard to international peace during my term as Secretary of State. . . . As one of the authors of the Peace Pact, I should not talk about it, but I feel satisfied that it made a great impression throughout the world...
...Swope's first job with General Electric (in 1893) was time work. His $1.00 per day lowered the average pay; his present salary boosts it even more powerfully. Four college degrees hang on his wall. If he wishes, three medals may blaze on his coat: The French Legion of Honor, the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, the American D. S. M. As everyone knows, he is the brother of dynamic Herbert Bayard Swope, ex-executive editor of the (New York) World. Both brothers were born in St. Louis, Gerard slightly more than nine years before Herbert. Gerard...
...goodly proportion of advanced work is necessary if college training is to go beyond the secondary school stage of mental gymnastics. But where the demands of mechanical and rote memory work hang heavy over an advanced field the activity there is crippled. Only when men are freed from this threat can they go forward...