Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest of the Vagabond even more was the personality of Dr. Palache. Here was the scientist type at its best. A rather elderly bearded man whose enthusiasm for his subject was apparent in every phrase contrived to transmit his enthusiasm to the audience whose absorbed interest made them hang on every word. Incidentally, Professor Palache is one of the world's authorities on diamonds, and tomorrow's lecture on the occurrence of diamonds and diamond mines should be as interesting to the layman as to the mineralogist...
...Homage to a Hostess" represents an other oak plank (with every grain minutely painted) from which hang a red-feathered trolling spoon and a string of speckled birds' eggs. Pinned to the plank is a sheet of blue notepaper with this message, in English...
...Angeles, R. L. Dunn, 250 lb., tried to hang himself from a chandelier. The chandelier came down. He cut his throat and still lived. He slashed his wrists and still lived. He opened veins at his elbows. When two detectives and a doctor came he was pronounced dead. Then R. L. Dunn jumped out of bed, began fighting all three...
Babe Gordon is a Manhattan girl whose racket is to hang around prizefights, cultivate promising pugs, whom she then deprives of manhood and the possibility of winning championships. Like most girls of fiction she is young (19), beautiful, fatally alluring. Babe sees "Bearcat" Delaney in action, covets him, gets him, even marries him for a while. When the money is gone she leaves him flat, goes back to Harlem and joins the dope-peddling racket. After hours she has a high old time with "Money" Johnson, Negro gambling tycoon, then with Wayne Bald win, Manhattan socialite. She tricks...
...Mandan, N. Dak., Edward Loran often told friends he would fool his wife by pretending to hang himself. Last fortnight his body was found suspended in his cellar, the feet one-quarter inch from the floor. Edward Loran had misjudged the rope-length...