Word: hang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army, maintains a force of 20,000 of his best-clothed, best-fed, best-paid soldiers in Teheran, This week the stern dictator's men were making the rounds of households along the route of the contemplated state drive of His Imperial Majesty, warning citizens to display flags, hang out banners...
...legend of the four huge, tear-shaped pearls that hang from the cross pieces of the British imperial State crown is that they were once Queen Elizabeth's earrings. Taking off from that point, Fabulist Guitry weaves "a veritable fairy tale, the most imaginative passages of which will seem real-perhaps." In the ensuing series of pseudohistorical blackouts, some are naively satirical, others playfully sexy, others plain stodgy. But each is braced up with a neat jigger of the Guitry imp, combines to form a razzle-dazzle of fact & fancy that any cinemagoer should enjoy if he can curb...
...whom, correspondents reported, looked like Frenchmen, most seeming to be Eastern European unemployed. This mob whirled toward the Senate, tearing up iron grillwork on the boulevards to use as clubs, but were stoutly withstood by police and steel-helmeted Gardes Mobiles, "Down with the Senate! Hang these old men!" cried the mobsters and fell to chanting the Internationale. "Down with the dotards! Hang Caillaux! Caillaux to the gallows...
...take several London papers and have been amused to see the way their writers used the TIME article as a peg on which to hang columns and columns about "Our Gracie." In the London Daily Express a four column analysis by James Agate is headed "IS GRACIE FIELDS COMMON?" The concluding words are, "She is common, vulgar, and low. Bless...
...Government, for the one in History and Economics, and for the one in Government and Economics. Government Regulation of Industry is the most popular; International Relations and American Constitutional History are next. In theory their scope must be extensive in order to allow a student enough wall space to hang his knowledge, yet in eight years of experimentation examiners have found that in practice they become merely repititious tests of course material. This ill situation may be cured in one of two ways, either by abolishing correlation exams or by improving them. The latter, because of Harvard's ideal...