Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first inauguration; John Quincy Adams bathing naked in the Potomac ; Wilson nibbling crackers while pecking out his war message to Congress; Jackson, when asked if he had any regrets in his life, admitting that he had two: "He had been unable to shoot Henry Clay, or to hang John C. Calhoun...
...Adieu, Maurice." Moscow, for instance, is known to be worried about certain tendencies in the French party. Maurice Thorez, the official leader, did not go to Miszlakowice. He leads the wing of the party which has stressed independence of Moscow, wants collaboration-temporarily-with democratic parties and wants to hang on to those 5,500,000 Communist votes...
...Unsuspected (Curtiz; Warner] is suspected too soon by the audience and too late by most of his fellow actors. The result is a long, lame melodrama about a radio star (Claude Rains) whose secretary is the first to be murdered, and various other people, pleasant and unpleasant, who hang around Rains's mansion hounding the culprit, or just waiting their turn. Among those present: Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Kurd Hatfield, Constance Bennett, Fred Clark...
...weeks the delegates in Paris had worked hard, consulting charts and tables and their own political feelings. The difficulties were great. They had finished their report, however, in apparent unanimity, persuaded that they had better hang together or they would hang separately...
...crowd broke into uproarious laughter and cries of "Death to De Gasperi-hang him in the Piazza, Loreto!" (where Mussolini was strung up), and "Death to Truman...