Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chauffeur that can hang curtains, a cook that can crochet...
Like a chauffeur that can hang curtains, or a cook that can crochet, a baseball pitcher that can bat is a rare and 'desirable possession. Last week, a committee of sport writers voted one such "most valuable to his team" of all players in the American League this season...
Scratch a Californian and you find a tennis player. Last week more tennis laurels went West. The ubiquitous, indefatigable, highly skillful brothers Kinsey-Robert and Howard -convinced all comers at the Longwood Cricket Club (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) that the national doubles wreath ought to hang on the Golden Gate beside Helen Wills' national singles, doubles and Olympic foliage and the numerous, though more withered, prizes of Mary K. Browne, May Sutton Bundy, Maurice E. Mc-Laughlin, "Little Bill" Johnston and "Peck" Griffin...
Certain M.P.'s were astonished to find a portait of Lady Astor by the renowned artist, Sims, hanging on the wall by the House of Commons staircase. This picture shows the first lady M.P. being introduced into Parliament by ex-Premiers Arthur Balfour (now Lord Balfour) and David L. George. In the Distinguished Stangers' Gallery are seated, with appreciative smiles, Lord Astor and John W. Davis, erstwhile U. S. Ambassador to Britain, now Democratic nominee for the Presidency of the U. S. Strange murmurs were heard among the masculine members of the House. One hundred...
...couching this last phrase, Dr. Wilson was probably grasping in his mind for Benjamin Franklin's famous dictum: "We must all hang to- gether, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." That phrase may not have come quickly to his mind, with the result that he substituted a phrase acquired in his duties as a censor of public morals...