Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Philip's sons went to Yale. Of the third generation, these are so far the most outstanding Weyerhaeusers. When Son Frederick got out of college (1917) he nailed a rubber hook to his office door, amused himself at his father's repeated attempts to hang his coat on it. He is now president of Weyerhaeuser Sales Co. John Philip Jr. took to the forests after graduation (1920), started the firm on selective cutting, is now executive vice president of the biggest Weyerhaeuser operating company...
...accepting a portrait of John Reed to hang in one of her dormitories, Harvard has shown again, as she has so often in the past, that fine tolerance which is the hallmark of intellectual distinction. John Reed was one of her brilliant sons. He died for his faith in the Bolshevik revolution. It matters not that his political creed was in violent opposition to anything of the kind entertained by most Harvard men then or now. Harvard is not concerned with his opinions, but with the spirit of a man who gave everything he had in support of what...
...into forgetting that she is really an actress of great promise and considerable style. As the orchestra leader, Charles Boyer manages to make the defeat which he receives from his material comparatively graceful. Worst shot: the hero telling the heroine how little he has loved the mistresses whose photographs hang in his living room...
...sales up to 1,000,000 in a fortnight. He repeated the feat last year with the Socialist weekly Clarion. In two months he drove its circulation from 40,000 to nearly 250,000. So long as they show a profit, he is willing to let his publications hang on to their traditional politics, like the old-style Liberalism of John Bull, the Conservativism of The People. Publisher Elias is Britain's Socialist Press-on a profit basis...
...with Pain shall hang in hock...