Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King & Queen, shuffled into place, proceeded to St. George's Chapel-the choir of which is the Garter Chapel-to worship together for the first time in 23 years, the second time in 129. Each knight filed into his own stall over which, during his lifetime, hang his sword, helmet, crest and banner...
...cooking and artistic needlework. He made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes he believes is a rediscovery of a lost purple used by the Egyptians. He made paints from clay, peanuts and cattle dung. With these he painted pictures, some of which hang in art galleries. From wood shavings he made a synthetic marble...
...were quietly digging out $500 per day when Herbert Hoover suddenly put them on the national mining map last summer. Out of "purely geologic curiosity" the great engineer journeyed across the Sierras from his home in Palo Alto to inspect the Jumbo, was greatly impressed, advised the Austins to hang on (TIME, Aug. 31). George Austin announced that he would not sell at any price. Discovery of unsuspected veins last autumn added to Jumbo's lustre, touched off a local boom in surrounding territory...
Give a dog an ill name, says the proverb, and he'll soon be hanged. Hang a man for piracy and he'll be known as a bloody pirate to all posterity. Captain Kidd, who ended his career in a gibbet on Execution Dock, has become the legendary archetype of brutal buccaneer. Says Biographer Wilkins: poor Captain Kidd was a much-maligned man. In a 411-page examination of the contemporary documents in Kidd's case, Sleuth Wilkins sniffs the cold, obscured trail like an eager beagle. His beaglish enthusiasm, indeed, takes Author Wilkins in a wide...
...large dining room the patronesses will receive before a throne which is to be an exact copy of the one used in the Coronation. The purple ermine robe and the gold scepter, symbols of the British Empire, will decorate the throne, and above it will hang a canopy and a large replica of the British coat of arms...