Word: hang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Signals Hang...
Today the Wilhemenia, which has been at sea nearly two weeks, had to hang out the wash to day. Unfortunately, Mr. Sopwith arrived on the scene of the battle early, and mistook the clothesline for the course flags. From a highly un authoritative source, I learned that Mr. Sopwith plotted his day's run from (1) a pair of basketball bloomers that one of the sailors insisted on wearing for his setting up exercises, (2) a bandana handkerchief used for wiping the moter, (3) a Navajo blanket, and (4) a pair of purple-striped shorts...
...Deal. In spite of his parole profligacy and the fact that his State is one of the five in which the Federal Government administers its own work relief, Governor Eugene Talmadge apparently swore the most convincingly. He might wear outlandish cowboy clothes in public and his wife might hang the family wash in the front yard of the executive mansion, but the back-country farmers trooped to the polls to renominate him in a primary that was tantamount to election...
...Curley will sweep the town today, hang up a mark for other candidates to aim at in the years to come, be hailed and proclaimed tomorrow as one of the leaders of his party in the East...
...blowing in their whole savings on cotton-mill stock, made a lucky strike and took up speculation as a living. Everybody else was doing likewise. Conservative Millowner Houghton got involved in many a gilt-edged scheme. Even young Harry, who had literary ambitions, let his better judgment go hang when pretty Trix urged him, and embezzled his library's funds to get some easy money. That time he and everyone else got away with it. But 1921 was a different story: cotton slumped, stocks crashed, mills went bankrupt. Everyone had to haul in his kite. Trix, who had cometted...