Word: hang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rage against "good old Pete.'' They climb in his window, bully his little daughter, argue drunkenly with him. When they propose to take him forcibly to apologize to the college president, he orders them out profanely. One lassoes him. The connotations of the rope and the song. "Hang him to a sour apple tree," suggest a lynching, get them half out the door with their man when the professor's wife appears in the doorway. In shuffling shame they drop their ropes, go mumbling away. When the authors finish with their hero, he is waiting...
...wondering what Santa Claus is going to do about the Adams House Chimney. If he descends to fill the stockings which the denizens of that patchquilt House hang at Christmas he may be blown back up the Chimney, sky high, bag, and all. A powerful fan is being built under the Adams hearth to make the flames in the unsuccessful fireplace go up, and make the smoke also obey gravity...
...Adams House was launched at a big inaugural affair, at which no undergraduates were present the guests were smoked out by the lusty young chimney. The janitor immediately tackled the problem by raising the logs up nearer the flue, but the smoke would take no encouragement, preferring to hang like a cloud over the Common Room table. He then blocked up the top part of the fireplace, trying to pinch the vapors into submission to Newton's law of Gravity to the Moon. But the smoke dived underneath the fires and came screeching up into his eyes...
...THEY COULDN'T HANG-Oliver Martyn-Morrow ($2). Two corpses for Superintendent Marsden. who cannot read Bell's Visible Speech, suspects his best friend, catches the murderer bashing in a water carafe...
...Balbo flight, France's air cruise was ordered by bespectacled Air Minister Pierre Cot. The full complement contained 30 planes which started from Istres Airdrome in southern France. One cracked up in Spain, another in Morocco. At desolate Bidon V (Gastank No. 5) three more planes had to hang back with engine trouble, caught up again in Upper Senegal...