Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thank Him for coming to the world and for calling Billy Sunday to His work. He, Billy Sunday, will then say, in case his "hunch" bears fruit and he dies before Mrs. Sunday: "I left Nell and the children down there on earth and I'd like to hang around the gate here to meet them." Jesus, Mr. Sunday thought, would reply in these terms: "All right, Bill, just sit down there. They'll come right through here. . . . There's the biggest bunch from St. Louis you ever...
...turn of the century, in Philadelphia, Joseph Pensendorfer was sentenced to hang for the murder of his father-in-law who had attacked his wife. Two days before his death day, the sentence was commuted to "life." Nine months ago he was pardoned and released from Pennsylvania's Eastern Penitentiary, after an exemplary term during which he had made himself a master carver and inlay worker. He had patented tricks of his own in woodworking and had a $50,000 bank credit (royalties) awaiting...
...cannot bring herself to love him? Is not the squealer suspected of being a bigamist and is not merry Frank Sutton overfamiliar with his gaudy secretary? In the big unmasking scene at the end of the book, everything is neatly explained. Sutton is indeed the squealer and he will hang for his bad acts; his secretary is his accomplice. Captain Leslie is none other than the shrewd Detective Barrabal; he will marry Beryl. Tillman is a newsmonger, whose disagreeable imposture does not prevent his comic confrere from getting the real scoop on the squealer mystery...
...first clubhouse nestled on Elysian Fields, Hoboken, N. J. Its present home on West 44th Street, Manhattan, is the shrine of social seamen the world over. Member boats over 30 feet on the waterline number more than 600. In the famed grillroom, designed like the salon of a ship, hang reproductions of all the notable ships of its history. Membership requires presentation of a model to this museum. There hangs, also, the stern board of the great yacht America, built by a syndicate headed by James C. Stevens, which sailed to England and raced against 15 British boats around...
...Ryder in 1917, was hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Manhattan. In 1924, it was bought by the Feragil Galleries, in Manhattan. The Feragil Galleries sold it, for a price not made public but estimated at $18,000, to the Cleveland Museum of Art. There it will hang from now on, a good painting and a ghoulish warning to all reckless sports...