Word: hang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the kidnappers had been deposited in the San Francisco jail to escape mob violence, police continued to drag the waters around San Mateo bridge for Brooke Hart's body. Even without a corpus delicti the State was primed to hang Thurmond and Holmes under California's brand new kidnapping statute...
...CASE OF COLONEL MARCHAND- E. C. R. Lorac-Macanlay ($2). The Colonel, a "womanizer." is dead after tea with a redhead. Pearls, a bastard and a decomposed cat hang the miscreant...
...present want of buyers. Insurance firms report increases in jewelry insurance during the last few months, but trace them to people taking their jewels out of vaults and wearing them; not to new jewelry buying, despite a 40% increase in diamond imports. Distress stocks of defunct jewelry firms still hang unsold over the market and even the desire for possession of tangible goods as a hedge against Inflation has not led to any appreciable buying of jewels-possibly due partly to fear that if the South African diamond syndicate operating under that dominion's Precious Stones...
...Sparks St. he has assembled all the evidence that one could need for an analysis of his mental processes. He has a beautiful collection of unused chessmen; sundry gargoyles stare out from his walls; there is a mug used at Nicky's coronation; framed on the wall hang a pair of European Court Fans; on a window seat, in the sun, sparkles a jewel handled Moorish Scimitar; and over there, in a glass case, is a death mask of Oliver Cromwell, Upstairs are the proud portraits of Cromwell and the collection of tools. In some dark closet hangs the Frock...
...hang-fire war between Radio and the Press, the newspapers thus far have done all the fighting. Radio, which gets more & more of the national advertiser's dollar each year partly at the expense of newspapers, has been able to sit back and insist quietly that, so far as Radio was concerned, no war existed. Last week, however, Columbia Broadcasting System took action which, if not a show of force, at least was good showmanship. It formed Columbia News Service, Inc. to gather and broadcast news...