Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tendency is general throughout this eight to hang at both catch and finish, and the time is very poor at certain places. Much better form may be expected when the men get well together; as it is now, the want of uniformity has a marked effect on the other points...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : Your editorial Friday morning speaks of Gen. Butler as "a man who has expressed a desire to hang all Harvard professors." This is a mistake, and it is incredible on the face of it. He once said in court, when the testimony of a Harvard professor was quoted by opposing counsel as entitled to great weight, "Oh, we hanged one of them not long ago," referring to Dr. Webster, who murdered Dr. Parkman. This is a somewhat different version of the matter. The New York Herald's remark on your first page refers to this...
...future campaigns. In this case, at least, it must be apparent to all, excepting, possibly, the recipient himself, that the honor is conferred upon the office and not the man. It will indeed be a curious sight to see a man who has expressed a desire to hang all Harvard professors occupying a seat of honor upon the platform on commencement day, and we have no doubt but that many, both within and without the State, will find the spectacle highly entertaining...
They did not hang him, even...
...determined to make herself a martyr in the cause of antiquated gas-bags and dyspeptic hierophants. And many is the versified heart-throb she is obliged to listen to in her capacity of mother to all the intellectual neophytes whose only excitement is her weekly reception, where they hang upon the lips of Asphyxia and her friends and pay less attention to the "flow of soul" than to the material formations in corsets and crinoline. And many is the moody tit-bit dedicated to this young lady who fully appreciates the satisfactory character of a husband who has "struck...