Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hang of half the alphabet...
...smashed up in an automobile accident and for two years after that his father made him stay on the family ranch. When he got out of Grinnell College he drew cartoons for a Helena newspaper. He went to Los Angeles to be a commercial artist, began to hang around the offices of casting directors. He got parts in a few westerns and after a while his height and his handsome, inexpressive face induced directors to let him try straight roles. Some of his good ones: Beau Sabreur, The Legion of the Condemned, The Shopworn Angel, Wolf Song...
Everything depends, of course, upon the point of view. Soon after his crime young Princip, whom the Austrian Imperial Prosecutor grimly called "too young to hang," was locked up under a sentence of "solitary confinement in a darkened cell for life." As was intended, he withered in the damp dark, died of consumption...
Water filtering through overlaid rocks for perhaps 60 million years made Carlsbad Cave by dissolving original beds of rock salt, limestone, gypsum. In the great rooms, dripping water carrying, dissolved minerals has formed great stalagmites and stalactites. In the "King's Room" stalactites hang like the iridescent folds, pleats and ruffles of a canopy. The monstrosity of Carlsbad Cave, however, is the "Big Room," half a mile long, 400 ft. wide, 348 ft. high. Sixteen airships the size of the Los Angeles could be housed therein...
...Bruins have got just about everything a hockey club could have, and anyone who saw them turn back the Montreal Maroons last Saturday evening to hang up a new record for consecutive victories came away from the Montreal Forum convinced that it will be a long time before any other club will be able to muster up power enough to turn them back. The Maroons are a heavy, bruising outfit, but good as they were they were no match for the Boston team when the precious goals were needed. It is in the matter of teamwork that the Bruins particularly...