Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their work." Said he at the last certificate presentation in February: "It is a fine thing to be the first in any line, and you may well be proud of the engrossed certificates which may be handed down to later generations so long as paper and ink will hang together...
Poles under sentence to hang were worried. They know that a noose smartly drawn up (with knot close under one ear of the condemned) will bring instant, pain less death, by snapping the neck. Such have been the nooses of experienced Hangman Maciejewski, a onetime medical student. On the other hand, a loose and slovenly noose brings slow strangulation, lingering agony...
This situation has its pathetic side, aside from the implied underselling by other cities. For an old lawyer, grown fat with riches gathered beside the Charles, has said within the hearing of Mr. Sinclair: "Hang onto your money. Nobody respects anything else. . . ." "Harvard and State Street and Beacon Hill had taught him that attitude," adds Mr. Sinclair, who is an expert at qualitative analysis. And Max Keezor agreed, with a respectful pull at his forelock, "Aye, a little learning do be a dangerous thing...
...Americans are the most lawless people that I have ever seen," he continued on another strain. "I have been following the papers regularly, a murder here, and a murder there, murders everywhere. And if they are not acquitted they hang, two years later. In England it is done in two to three weeks, no longer than the time taken to empanel a jury in this country...
...Louis. "We'll talk about the campaign we held here for millions of years." he said. With parables and epigrams he summarized the serious topic of his sermon, Eternal Life: "Man tries to whitewash himself when God wants to wash him white. . . . Don't let God hang a 'For Rent' sign in the mansion he's prepared...