Word: hang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...older than Ruskin. Not so much for his gently conventional verse as for his U. S. background was Poet Lionel Wiggam notable. Twenty-year-old son of a welterweight champion and a farmer's daughter, he entered Northwestern University at 15, left to play in a stock company, hang wallpaper, work on a road-gang, as a janitor; went back to college on a scholarship when his poems began to be published. Meantime he was leading a literary double life as pseudonymous writer of lurid tales for the pulp magazines...
...conclave. Present were two relatives of the wife of a 32-year-old WPA worker named Charles Poole. They reported that Charles Poole was a wife-beater. "Let's beat him up!" "Let's stripe him!" cried the Black Legionaries. Some, more bloodthirsty, screamed: "Let's hang...
...break the parade up with rioting when it reached the Heldenplatz. Scrawny Chancellor von Schuschnigg promptly showed a personal courage few knew he possessed. He led the parade himself. Even so, Heimwehr-men followed instructions, threw rocks, howled "Pfni Schuschnigg! R-r-r-r-aus mit ihm! Hang Schuschnigg!" Three people were stabbed. Mounted, police swept up 70 cursing Heimwehrmen...
...fact of which Warner Brothers made much use in their advertising. Although Miss Davis still can make her eyes pop and her lips droop, The Golden Arrow proves nothing more than that she is adept at nonchalance. Good shot: her proposal of marriage to George Brent while they hang upside down in a Ferris wheel...
...defaulted, Price Bros. had a short period of grace to make good. Knowing there were only some $11,000,000 of bonds out against saw mills, power sites, 8,000 square miles of timber, two newsprint mills capable of 1,100 tons daily, the bondholders' committee prepared to hang on. Meanwhile many a potent user and producer of newsprint eyed the ailing company's assets with interest. When the bankruptcy ax finally fell eight months later, officers began to appear from such sources as Britain's Bowater's Paper Mills Ltd., a syndicate headed by Montreal...