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Word: hang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate the system opens opportunities for currying parental approval unequalled even by the palmy first grade days when Mamma beamed her joy over the coveted "Ex" in deportment: No matter how gray the skies may hang over such courses as Philosophy A or Evolution 6, the mediocre but conscientious Tufts student can now know that the brightest of silver linings beams out from the old report card with an A in Conventional Religion 1. It is better perhaps not to consider the fate of the always possible naughty boy who by a miscalculation or the failure of the alarm clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GET A's | 2/12/1929 | See Source »

...seat. "There," they whispered to one another, "is the Good Young Man of our church." And later, when they walked home with their children, they were apt to say: "Winfield, I wish you wouldn't keep your hands in your pockets. He never does."Or, again:"Ulysses, don't hang your head. Stand up straight, as he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Good & Rich | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...college girls givva more da mon' den da boys? Well, mebby, sometime. Nobody givva much in da cold weather. I maka most my mon' in spring, when it's warm an' da folks hang outta da window". Thus did Joe the hurdy-gurdy man, whose rickety cart, boney horse and barking dog are familiar figures in Cambridge, sum up his business prospects, without realizing that he was undergoing an interview with a CRIMSON reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joe the Organ-Grinder Admits Superior Eleemosynary Spirit in Girls--His Horse's Left Hind Foot Once a Target | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

...Later Sheriff Pecot sent me enough money to pay my railroad fare both ways. But I've raised my price. If I am to hang Mrs. Leboeuf and Dr. Dreher next Saturday, or any other time, I must get $550 and expenses at Franklin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hangman Vexed | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...necklaced and, according to Sunday magazine articles, "superbly formed." In office hours, in sombre office attire, she looks perhaps more resolute than charming, and most of the pearls are hidden beneath her dress. But at social functions in Louisville, in Washington, grimness mellows into dignity, and the pearls, uncovered, hang in a double strand of gleaming white. A friend of hers is Dr. Hubert Work, Republican National Committee chairman. Not a friend of hers is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Representative-at-Large-Elect of Illinois. She is Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, and she received last week a hearty endorsement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Woman Secretary? | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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