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Word: hanged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, but don't go near the water" the sequel to the play's title, represents the reluctance with which the mother in the story, author, lecturer, feminist, and graduate of Greenwich Village, grants permission to her impetuous daughter to go away on a clandestine week-end with the young man she loves but cannot yet marry. This daughter is bidding fair to be fully as enlightened as her mother was, for it is she who suggested the week...

Author: By F. H. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 1/26/1938 | See Source »

When a Harvard man goes home, he is apt to hang his hat in any one of 44 foreign countries, according to a report released yesterday tabulating the geographical representation among the University's 8,289 students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 44 Foreign Nations Represented Here; Canadian, Chinese Contingents Largest | 1/12/1938 | See Source »

Sitting under the overturned plane, which was only good "to hang my hammock on," Perry dreamed of the food at the dinner while three other passengers wandered off in search of water and never came back, according to a letter from him recently published in the Alumni Bulletin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISSES HARVARD CLUB BANQUET | 1/5/1938 | See Source »

...California makes 97% of U. S. wine and the Wine Institute represents the producers of 75% of California's wine. Little Harry Caddow, still the Wine Institute's secretary-manager, has a hard job getting his temperamental French, Italian, German, Swiss, Hungarian, Armenian and Scottish members to hang together. Biggest Institute wineries are Italian Swiss Colony with a storage capacity of about 13,000,000 gallons, Fruit Industries Ltd., a growers' co-operative with a storage capacity of 19,500,000 gallons, and Roma Wine Co., Inc. which is now expanding to 20,000,000 gallons. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Vin Ordinaire | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...picture palace; it's no go the stadium, It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums. It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections, Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension. It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever, But if you break the bloody glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetect | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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