Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand-knitted sweater from Hero Gerald Shannon, thereby enabling the latter to become a Self-Made Man and town-builder back in Ireland, as broad Kevin Shannon, his father, had been in the U. S. How might that be? By the same token that Gerald Shannon chances to hang his shoes on the chandelier and trousers in the tub, and to take a circus troupe to a senator's party, and to sing Rocked in the Cradle with a freight-yard detective, and to be very unwell on a mule-ship. Author Connell simply wants his hero...
...difference in color of lights. Dealers. Road agents selected Ford dealers on the basis of good habits, home town standing and enthusiasm for the car itself. Ford dealers could sell only Ford cars. "Influences" that made Ford stock worth relatively little in 1913: Woodrow Wilson's threat to hang commercial malefactors "on a gallows as high as Haman"; New York's impeached Governor William Sulzer's threats against stock speculations; Theodore Roosevelt's trumpetings at "malefactors of great wealth."-Testimony of Arthur O. Choate, Manhattan investment banker...
...distinguished contemporary, the Boston Evening Transcript, contributes the cogent criticism on current American education which is reprinted in an adjoining column. The pegs upon which hang the editorial reasoning are two. First, "we do not pay successful educators salaries that will enable them to live decently." Second, "The essential fault of our national attitude toward education is our disposition to regard it as a commodity like any other", and that "average college graduates probably reached a higher level when Emerson, Holmes, Lowell and Felton were coming out of the modest institutions of an earlier...
...theory, when 50 or 500 men and women rush through the night and hang a man or woman, they all?50 or 500?become murderers or accessories to murder. But in practice, in the South, lynchers have not been judged guilty of anything, because Southern governments habitually neglect to locate them. Last week, however, the most important news from Georgia was that one Gaines Lastinger had been sentenced to life imprisonment. He is the twelfth of a midsummer's night mob of lynchers to be convicted by Georgia...
Suspenders were lauded as an aid in the proper hang of trousers...