Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when I soon hang up, dear...
...Pictured with the German Empress Augusta Victoria in 1909 as she congratulated him on the 61st anniversary of his ascension to the thrones of Austria-Hungary. He died in 1916, never knew defeat. Her death at Doom (1921) was hastened by the fear that the Allies would "Hang The Kaiser!" her consort...
...owned it for 30 years, allowing it to be shown in public only once-at the exhibition of Spanish art in London in 1895. There is talk now that the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will buy it, give it a place beside two other El Grecos that hang there, "St. Dominic" and the Portrait of Fray Feliz Hortenzio Palavincio. These two are fine portraits; St. Martin is better. It is one of the most important works of a man whose intellect has had few equals among the minds of the world. Very little is known about El Greco. Even...
...political hang over...
...They cone in and they stand around and can't decide whether they want a sea-going or two black-and-tans and a large milk. And then they take their own time eating and when I come to take the dishes they aren't finished yet, and they hang on to the plates and hinder my work. And when they've finally paid their bill, they think they'll have another milk and a piece of cake, and a newspaper and a cigarette. You can't tell me that the boys get indigestion from eating too fast...