Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tate's board of trustees admitted that some bequest money (?2,750) had not been used as directed, but insisted that the sum had been refunded from other income. Nevertheless, Painter Graham Sutherland (twelve of whose starkly modern paintings hang in the Tate) resigned his post as a trustee, last week charged that "several breaches of trust" had been committed and that the board had been duped on the current market value of modern works of art, resulting in "considerable wastage of public money...
...engaging smile, nervous gesture, and rapid-fire delivery is becoming increasingly well-known. In his office, however, Owen is far removed from the elevated atmosphere of the auditorium. Besieged with phone calls, his desk piled high with papers, the Chairman of the History Department "is just trying to hang on through the winter...
...Foreign Ministers met in the very room in the massive onetime Hohenzollern palace where the generals who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1944 were sentenced to hang on butcher's meathooks until dead. The ceiling above them bore a garish painting of the Last Judgment with a direful Gabriel blowing a gilded trumpet...
Miss Olivia Hazelton will present the portrait, painted in 1918 by her sister, the late Mary B. Hazleton. It will hang in the Army ROTC seminar room...
JOHN J. PHILLIPS, C.S.SP. Pittsburgh Sir: . . . The Virgin Mary is not a Freudian hook to hang a frustrated hat on. She simply is the Mother of God, and will, with her open arms, accept and receive even those who despise her, acting as Mediatrix, advocate and helper. As a lawyer, I know the value of a good advocate ; as a married Catholic man with a happy home life, I know the value of a good wife and helper; but ... a man still needs God, and without Mary there...