Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government can find no stable majority, if the only logical move is to order dissolution and an election on the issue at stake?then the Government can go hang. It has, amid a mounting welter of corruption that produced the Stavisky Scandal (TIME, Jan. 15), the bloody riots in the Place de la Concorde (TIME, Feb. 12) and the reluctant emergence from retirement of ex-President Doumergue as Premier (TIME, Feb. 19) to "save France...
Life a la Henri is one of those books that has a definite physical effect on the reader. C. M. Doughty's famed Arabia Deserta, for example, parches the tongue. Life a la Henri makes the tongue hang out, the mouth water...
...bears some slight trace of that preciousness so carefully cultivated in certain Harvard circles of the 1920's. He makes the neat point that Mr. Eliot's flight to the Church has resemblances with Mr. Malcolm Cowley's flight to Communism; but on the whole his epigrams fail to hang together...
...relished by the industry's Negro employes. After 15 leading launderers had been summoned for wage violation, Louis Wing, president of Wing Moisture Blower Co. and a power in the Chinese Laundry Alliance, pledged the local NRA enforcement officer that the laundrymen would henceforth keep their books in English, hang their codes upside up in a conspicuous place, pay NRA wages...
...Hopper, a Sebastiano del Piombo, a "Master of Frankfurt." Because he badly needed money, said Gallery Director S. M. Salomon, he would sell the lot to Mr. Joseloff for ?8,000 ($46,625). Mr. Joseloff agreed to buy provided Mr. Salomon could produce certificates of authenticity, planned to hang his new acquisitions with his already authenticated Corot, Velasquez, Romney, Constable. When Mr. Salomon promised to mail the certificates, Mr. Joseloff paid, sailed, with pictures...