Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resident-General Steeg of Morocco is reputed to have secured Krim's surrender by promises of immunity; whereas at Paris and Madrid a considerable faction began last week to tout the slogan: "Hang Abd-El-Krim...
...Abbott McNeill Whistler sold one of his most famed canvases to the Luxembourg, one of Paris' great art galleries. The consideration for the transfer was small, and Whistler is supposed to have understood that some time after his death it would be translated to the magnificent Louvre and hang among the great masters. Whistler died in 1903, but the picture still hangs in the Luxembourg. It is unusual for paintings to be hung in the Louvre until some 50 years after an artist's death...
...yard stage. But he was following orders. His most respected rival in that race was Westmore Willcox of Harvard. Willcox had done 48 seconds on two occasions and this was his last college race. Meredith had an 880 final to run an hour later, so I told him to hang close to Willcox's shoulder for the first half...
...Treasury Department's function to enforce, Secretary Andrew Mellon heard his signal services to the country acclaimed, and beheld his likeness, brushed in oils by fashionable Painter Philip de Laszlo (who lately painted President and Mrs. Coolidge), presented to the New York Chamber of Commerce, to hang in company with those of his predecessors-including great Alexander Hamilton, clever Albert Gallatin, honest John Sherman. Mr. Speyer spoke in Manhattan, in behalf of 500 Chambermen subscribers to a Mellon portrait fund...
Intrigued, His Majesty announced late in the week that he would purchase the portrait. Citizens of the Borough of Fulham, which had already contracted with Artist Jack for this work, intending to hang it in their Council Chamber, were surprised...