Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current lower prices) in value of unsold Fairchild planes & engines; of "ventures . . . which do not now seem to promise profitable operation" (possibly Cuban flying service, various flying schools). Aviation Corp., with its $19,000,000 cash resources, could well afford the "house cleaning" of items that would otherwise hang over to clutter up future balance sheets, and mitigate the good showing anticipated from benefits of the Watres airmail bill (TIME, April...
...Warner). A new picture starring Al Jolsonlis known beforehand to be little save a skeletal frame upon which he may hang gags ancient and new, plug sentimental ballads, caper through dance steps and behave in the approved Jolson manner. Big Boy is a cinemized version of the musicomedy of the same name in which he appeared for the Shuberts five years ago, a hackneyed, outlandish tale of a proud Southern family staking all on the Kentucky Derby, blackmailers, a forged check, an errant son, a happy musicomedy ending. Big Boy is the horse on which Jolson as Gus, the maligned...
Scarcely less famed is the Ardebil carpet, now in London's Victoria & Albert Museum. A body of rich blue with delicate floral tracery surrounds a centre medallion of yellow. Sixteen minaret-shaped points lead to 16 red, gold, and green cartouches. Sacred mosque lamps hang from two of them...
...repeated the threat to the artist. When the Duke arrived unexpectedly at Goya's studio the next day he found his wife lightly but sufficiently clad in flimsy trousers, toreador's jacket, posing for another picture which sly Goya had stayed up all night to paint. Both pictures now hang side by side in the Seville gallery...
...correct quotation ''Hang yourself, my pood Crillon. We [the royal "we"] were at Arques, you were not there." Justice Brandeis has a prodigious memory, accurate to minute details. His error may have been one of consonant association. Ivry is pronounced almost exactly like Ivhri, Hebrew word for Hebrew...