Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bore the news of the Battle of Marathon to Athens. Like many marathoners, Henigan, 39, has outraced his own youth. He has been a long distance runner for 20 years. He is frail, short, has brown hair and a pert expression which long ago gave journalists a peg to hang him on: "Smiling Jimmy." He was on the Olympic cross-country team of 1924 and the Olympic 10,000 metre team...
...Yale News" in an editorial stand for a liberalizing of the cut system at Yale, suggests the idea, prevalent in the colleges, that given enough rope, the Great Unwilling will eventually hang itself. Unfortunately, here, as in other walks of life, it is a case of divided to fall, united to stand. Given enough rope, enough cooperation, enough seasoned catch-words, and the hardened suicide can live through any system fabricated. Show a few gentlemen C's, worn with just a touch of the Gentleman Ranker and the Spree, and membership to the Federation of Non-Labor is free...
...This truly begins a new day for Chicago. . . . The bums and hoodlums who hang around in the corridors and make the City Hall look like a cheap lodging house on Saturday night are going to be swept right...
...list of "Dont's" for the parents of boys and girls who will soon graduate from high school has been prepared by Dean Loomis of New York University. It is so beautifully balanced that it would hang evenly all around if it were poised on the point of a needle. But its chief virtue is its emphasis on common sense. Fathers and mothers probably need to be reminded that they should not insist on a college education for their children merely because they themselves had one or did not have one. It is easy to be wise about these problems...
...save Siedoi and mad Tsygan and a big brute called Pirate, shot down to conserve food. He sees the rising of the villagers and peasants, His Majesty the People led by the now legless rascal Peter, and their march upon the Prince's estate, where they hang the Prince's dogs one by one (including lovely Svietlana!) and then hang the Prince and rape the maid and after ransacking the house, set it on fire. Life is then all confused and hungry and bitter and terrifying. Siedoi travels hither and yon-"His Excellency the Inspector of Railroads...