Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David M. Steele of Philadelphia: If you had half the understanding I have of the people, you would hang your head in shame at what you have done to them. You and your Administration have utterly ruined them...
...membership on the German team. This in itself is an extremely difficult task, and no matter what the verdict, there will be an angry barrage of criticism. However, since the A.A.U. is better qualified to make this answer than the average observer, the answer to the whole problem should hang on its decision. It is unfortunate that a high-minded affair like the Olympic games should take place in Nazi Germany, but unless actual discrimination in athletics is proven, there is no valid reason for American athletes to refuse to compete in Berlin...
...palace, a huge young Galla lifted his open hand and struck the great dull-brown Negarit (Em-peror's) war drum. OMMMM . . . OMMMMM . . . Forty smaller kettledrums from the palace answered, rommo-mmommommommomm. The booming throbbed, swelled, seemed to shake the air. On each of the mountain tops that hang over Addis Ababa other drummers smacked their drumheads. The monotonous, terrible call to war spread out from the capital, from mountain top to mountain top, across the wild gorges, jungles and plateaus of Ethiopia, until it rolled into the capitals of the six great rases (princes), whose war drums took...
...Control Act of 1935 as a rider to the AAAmendments (TIME, Sept. 9). But he also knew that the Act was a natural evolution of their crop restriction program, that whatever indignation could be stirred up against it would fall on their heads. By last week Republican efforts to hang responsibility for the unpopular Act on President Roosevelt had become so vehement that New Dealers felt obliged to have Democratic Press-agent Charles Michelson observe in his weekly propaganda letter: "It just happens that the day the potato program was tacked on the AAAmendments, Despot Roosevelt was not despoting. . . . Fortunately...
...went to liquor dealers and moonshiners. "They're hell-raisers and do no good to anybody," said Charleston police. At Blaney some 15 veterans were on the chain gang. Kingstree citizens were worried by the campers' attentions to their "brass ankle women"?mongrel white-Negro-Indian wenches who hang about the Negro settlements. At Kingstree a score of drunken campers had just wrecked the entire second floor of the town jail. Women & children were staying off the streets to avoid the rest. More nuisance than menace, however, the veterans were so broken-spirited that Kingstree's two-man police...