Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there you always meet certain people. At one place you see Robert Benchley who is incidentally the hard- est working man in New York, and all of that crowd, and at another there is George Jean Nathan and his gang. The staff of 'The New Yorker' has its hang-out as well as 'Life' and 'Judge' and 'Time'. It is really the backbone of a certain phase of social life. And in this crowd stage people are continually mixing. When one is forever bumping into authors, budding and full-blown, one has at least to read the book reviews...
...have its 'ozonificators' that will spread the savor of the food through the air and follow it to the tables. No knives, spoons or forks will be required and the food may be taken with the fingers or simply aspired with the breath. Special radiating lamps will hang over the tables to radiate with ultraviolet rays the color of the food and excite the appetite. When all this has been accomplished the human race will be happy in the enjoyment of food, old age will become unknown and men and women will live again as long as Methuselah...
Charles Pierre Baudelaire, born with the haughties, found a peg to hang a life-grievance on when his young widowed mother married a man he detested, General Aupick. Stepfather Aupick believed in discipline. Stepson Charles disbelieved in Aupick. When Charles began to roam Paris with Bohemian friends, General Aupick feared for his own careful reputation. Soon they quarreled openly and Charles went off to live by himself. In his way both a dandy and an ascetic, Baudelaire astonished even the Bohemians. His first mistress was a hideous, squint-eyed, consumptive Jewess off the streets. Then he met Jeanne Duval...
Lawyers who "chase ambulances" are not respected in their profession. Their object, of course, is to aid or persuade the injured to bring suit-and split the damages. Ethically, such lawyers are comparable to doctors who would hang around at a bad corner waiting for auto crashes to bring them trade...
...Secretary, at present the Rt. Hon. John Robert Clynes, onetime worker in a cotton mill. One night last week he sat up late, thought about one Olive Catherine Wise. She had put a baby (hers) in an oven (cold) and turned on the gas. She had been sentenced to hang. Were there extenuating circumstances...