Word: hang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people went to war because, after more than two years of intense public discussion, the U. S. Government, duly and recently elected by the U. S. people, decided to declare war. Many and complex were the causes leading to this decision made by the President and Congress. To hang any large part of the "blame" on J. P. Morgan & Co. seems to TIME to be first-class politics and third-rate history. TIME, Aug. 14, made a point of the fact that before the U. S. entered the War the House of Morgan was sentimentally and financially interested in helping...
...Churchill expected no cheers for his foresight. He rushed off to have dinner with Harold Nicolson, M.P. (author of Portrait of a Diplomatist, Peacemaking, Dwight Morrow, Small Talk, Curzon: The Last Phase), and then hurried to his country home "Chartwell" in Kent to run his six secretaries ragged and hang on the telephone putting in calls all over Europe. "Now," said he, "Hitler...
...Italy might expect from the Axis arrangement (Djibouti, Tunisia, Suez). And an honest reflection of the Anglo-French determination was at last made public. If all this added up to anything, it meant clearing the road for B. Mussolini to slow A. Hitler down-if he could-perhaps to hang back if he couldn...
Munnings has long been reckoned one of the great painters of modern England. His 45 paintings of Canadian Cavalry, done while he was attached to the Army in France in 1917-18, now hang in the National Gallery of Canada. His painting of the late King George V, riding to a shoot in plus fours and gaiters on his little grey pony, Jock, was commissioned by Queen Mary. On Derby Day, 1925, Munnings became a member of the Royal Academy. In his work, as in his life, he is tweedy and correct...
...your statement is true, this country which spends half of its waking hours yowling at Hitler's persecution of the Jews and Czechs, should hang its head in shame at a foul and disgusting record...