Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cash, bought revolving tubs and pressing machines, and took a two-day course in how to run them. Soon he offered Port-au-Prince its first nettoyage à sec. After the predictable number of mangled sleeves and missing buttons, Jimmy's crew of five began to get the hang of dry-cleaning. The tele jiol (Creole for word-of-mouth telegraph) advertised his service, and bundles of clothes poured in on muleback and in baskets on peasant women's heads. Jimmy expanded his plant, opened a laundry (the Blanchisserie Jimmy). Today his business is worth...
Long before he died last January, his best epitaph had been inadvertently pronounced by Novelist Arnold Bennett, who was engaged in criticizing a play Eddie had thoroughly enjoyed. "Hang Eddie Marsh," grumped Bennett. "He's a miserable fellow-he enjoys everything...
Stones's excellent reasons for holding out, said Foreman, were 1) that a confession would have been a lie; 2) the Communists would "take that confession and hang it round the neck of every Chinese Christian who had ever had anything to do with him." Most shocking of all to Missionary Foreman was Stockwell's admission that he participated in the brainwashing of another prisoner...
Elocution & Roses. At the time of the wedding, Ike Culp told his prospective son-in-law: "Will, she's going to embarrass you. She doesn't give a hang about clothes and doesn't dress up the way she should...
...been confined to cutting the budget, and routine command decisions (clearing the way for the appointment of eleven assistants of her own choosing, moving the office hours ahead half an hour). But Oveta's friends and admirers are certain she will have some surprises once she gets the hang of her job. Said one last week: "She'll stay in harness a long time until she learns all the bends in the road. Then I predict she'll come out with some spectacular, original, and very important development in federal welfare...