Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World's Peace Congress, vice president of the American Peace Society. When the World War came, he toured the country urging pacifism. In New Haven, Yale students hooted and jeered him. At the Baltimore Academy of Music in April 1917 he was almost mobbed by rioters who sang: ''Hang Dave Jordan on a Sour Apple Tree!" After the U. S. entered the War, however, he made no more speeches. And ten years after the Baltimore incident he received a letter from one Carter G. Osburn, who said he had led the Baltimore mob: "No apology is possible for such...
With the exception of those frayed asbestos curtains which, bordered with gauche testimonials, used to hang in provincial opera houses, the theatre has always been a form of entertainment reasonably free from extraneous advertising. Less for ethical than for practical reasons the cinema maintained the same policy until about a year ago when, searching shrewd methods to combat Depression, producers hit on the scheme of making short advertising films which were paid for twice-first by the advertisers, second by cinemaddicts who paid to see them as entertainment. The scheme was bound to arouse resentment from other fields which combine...
...Juan-Les-Pins, France. The interview: "What's all this nonsense? . . . I received no command from the King, but merely a request from the music hall manager, named Black, to appear in a charity show. . . . Europe has bullied, misunderstood and misinterpreted me. I don't care a hang whether or not I ever make another film. . . . They say I have a duty to England. I wonder just what that duty is? No one wanted me or cared for me in England 17 years ago. I had to go to America for my chance, and I got it there...
...story of the C. P. R.'s construction is one of railroading's most spacious epics. In many Canadian schoolrooms hang pictures of the driving of the last C. P. R. spike at Craigellachie, B. C., on Nov. 7, 1885. Symbolizing the hardships the road went through, the last spike was iron, not gold. And every man who went to see it driven paid full fare...
...with Hayes just inaugurated, the Philadelphia Union League Club decided it should have a portrait of the new President to hang on the walls of its new clubhouse. Eakins, a Philadelphian who had won prizes at the Centennial Exposition, was commissioned. Like most new Presidents, Mr. Hayes felt he had no time to give for sittings. Artist Eakins humbly suggested that the Chief Executive might allow him to set up his easel in the President's office and make a picture while the President worked. Mr. Hayes, an excellent if unimaginative man, was agreeable; he stripped off his coat...