Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Babu Stirbey with the apartments of Dowager Queen Marie (where Carol, before he left Rumania four-and-a-half years ago, once surprised the Prince and boxed his ears) was ripped out. Search of the Stirbey palace last week revealed an archive of state secrets and codes sufficient to hang at least two persons for High Treason. But King Carol II wisely allowed his mother's one-time "court favorite" to leave Rumania for "voluntary exile...
...winners thus kept clean a record which they have held since their season opened adding the Harvard scalp to their belt on which already hang six. In the opening minutes of play the Eli players sent a fire of shots against Gulick, the Harvard goalie, who let five of them slip by. Salmon was substituted in his place, and in the remainder of the game he stopped 13 out of 15 shots...
...report to his superior, Mr. Wakatsuki takes much more dignified attitude than your description. If he did wrote his report to his Emperor in such position as you say, he certainly must be so helplessly paralyzed at that particular moment. The accompanying picture shows him writing a Kakemono, meaning hanging-word-picture, painting a word "self" in a large letter on likely a sheet of silk. (Probably next word was "ashamed.") This is to be made up in frame and hang on a wall in a certain corner of a supposed-to-be most sacred room in a house...
Although the promoters of the tote call it "the acme of simplicity," most Englishmen have not yet quite got the hang of this outlandish French machine, and last week King George approached his first tote with frank diffidence...
...Chicago, Earl Holmes prepared to marry Anne Larsen, sweetheart of Frank Fabarula, gangster. Fabarula, with two cronies, one a twice imprisoned policeman, kidnaped Holmes, tried to hang him to a tree. Three law-abiding policemen stopped them...