Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With no money to spend on amusement, and few places he wants to go for recreation, the juvenile is led to escape his boredom elsewhere, often in crime. A convicted delinquent from the housing project area explained it this way: "We always liked to hang around together at night. Sometimes we'd play the pinballs at the Spa, but usually we got kicked out. Then someone would say 'Let's take a walk' and pretty soon we'd end up down near the railroad tracks. Then, we'd hop a freight and clip a case of beer and get high...
...effeminate man in evening dress, cowering under Humphrey Bogart's open-handed smashes. Bogart, a fine actor in any role, sent a young generation out into the world with inscrutable smiles and tough wisecracks. The line, "If they give you twenty years, I'll wait for you; if they hang you, I'll always remember you," which Spade spits out to the girl he loves as he turns her in to the police, sets him forever apart from the race of love-sick weaklings...
APRIL. A Radcliffe girl is arrested for holding up the bank previously looted by an MIT student. She will explain, "I lust for experience" and then hang bullfight posters in her cell. Archibald MacLeish will volunteer his services to the football team claiming that "poetry should be brought to motion." Elsie buys out the Business School...
...answering the question, "But how make you gentles [i.e., fly larvae] to keep them?" the Arte says: "Of a piece of a beast's liver, hanged in some corner over a pot or little barrel, with a cross stick and the vessel half full of red clay; and as they wax big, they will fall into that troubled clay and so scour them that they will be ready at all times." On the same subject, Walton says: "You may breed and keep gentles thus: take a piece of beast's liver, and with a cross stick hang...
...Luke Short, the hero had been left "drowning in an ocean of pain." But in Aspen, Colo., Author Short (real name: Fred Glidden) told telephoners what they might have guessed anyway: the hero recovers, kills off the bad guys and confides to the pretty hired girl that he will hang up his guns for good...