Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Austria. Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, and now in Finland, Adolf Hitler had managed with devilish cunning to give his western opponents no place to lay a hand on him. Their chosen strategy for the past six months had perforce been tenacity-hang on, if unable to smoke him out, starve him out. Had the time now come for audacity? Such was the questioning mood, gloomy yet determined, uneasy though defiant, that was rapidly developing in the Allied countries early this week. And just at that point Adolf Hitler, that gifted diplomatic poker player with a hand full of jokers, raised...
...only one business appointment (J. P. Morgan) and to have accepted only one invitation (from the refugee Legitimist Austro-American League). He rather hopes to meet Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He said all he wanted was some sober fun, but his sympathizers, consisting principally of a few threadbare exiles who hang out in a Manhattan restaurant with a zither for Habsburg atmosphere, thought he would: 1) drum up sentiment for his Danubian Federation; 2) go to Canada to form the nucleus of an Austrian Legion at whose head he would some day ride to Imperial glory...
...Asked Congress to appropriate $2,500 to bear the cost of a portrait of former President Herbert Hoover to hang in the White House...
...recognition may be, it is safe to say that for every work of contemporary or recent art that has experienced the warm rich feeling that comes from being praised and ecstatically admired, there are two equally deserving of praise, which are recognized only by the wall upon which they hang. And these unrecognized attempts can be found, not only in museums, but more often on the wall of a cocktail lounge or restaurant in the daily comic sheet, sometimes in the form of an especially well-executed advertisement, and in the lobbies of theatres. Very often real...
...manual system automatic. Last week he was also planning the installation of telephones in Caro's Hotel Montague. Under the Moore plan each room will have a telephone number listed in the book. After calling the room clerk to discover what room his friend has, the subscriber must hang up and rephone the room direct. That makes the contact twice as expensive...