Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...containing several of the best lyrics in U. S. literature, attracted some attention. A year later he published North of Boston, a "book of people" so full of New England scenery and New England tones of voice that even foreigners could get the lay of the landscape and the hang of its inhabitants. His U. S. reputation thus established by his English success, when Frost returned to the U. S. in 1915 he found himself regarded as a famed American poet. In the next 22 years he received honorary degrees from 13 colleges, was thrice awarded the Pulitzer Prize...
...Trots-of-the-Month, a tuneful bumper crop, were topped by Hang Your Hfcart On a Hickory Limb (Bing Crosby; Decca), Shoemaker's Holiday (Jimmie Lunceford; Vocalion), Sing, My Heart (Will Osborne; Decca...
...wise, rebelled at his first interview. "Aw shucks," said he. "There ain't any mystery about me or my riding. I don't use no special tricks. I don't whisper no sweet words in the horse's ear. I just sit up there and hang...
...started when Jack Baldwin, San Jose, California, sophomore, tried to hang on to his local reputation an a Don Juan and five dollars, which an attempt to kiss twenty girls out of twenty-two in a half hour. Eight or the girls demurely denied him his fare. The fourteen maidens who succumbed offered him just consolation for the lost fiver...
...many years of chasing, a gentleman jockey turned pro. He was following the plan the illustrious George Stevens used to bring in his record five winners, before he was tossed to ignominious death in 1871 by a cob he was riding home over a rocky byroad. Stevens used to hang back until most of the field had harried each other into the ditches and hedges, then he would ride triumphantly in over the carnage. Wily Tim Hyde guided Workman that way until Becher's and the Canal Turn had taken their toll on the second round. Then, when...