Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capital Transit Company agreed to fly small U.S. and Mexican flags from its streetcars and buses; the Pan-American Union donated 250 blow-ups of Mexican scenes for store windows; and signs shouting "Viva Mexico," "Welcome President Aleman," and "Bienvenido Don Miguel" were readied for hanging on lampposts. The Fire Department planned to arch two 100-ft. ladders in an inverted V over the Memorial Bridge, deck them in the red, white and green of Mexico, tack on huge pictures of President Aleman, and hang a giant Mexican flag from the point of the V. Some 18 bands were assigned...
Where, in New Orleans, do Vouts hang out? I am a native of the city, a graduate student at Tulane University, and I have yet to see any Voutian goings-on about the campus, in the fraternity houses or in the drugstores and other places where students foregather...
...want war, and is promptly fired. On top of that, his pretty wife (played by Valentina Serova, Playwright Simonov's wife) prepares to leave him in a climactic scene (see cut) and he is dispossessed. But in a concluding soliloquy, Smith reassures the audience-he will not hang himself. His honesty unsullied, he will start life all over again, fighting for a better America. Whether or not he takes the subway straight down to Union Square is left to the audience's imagination...
...practice Torontonians did not seem to get the hang of it. They averaged, said bartenders, only two drinks apiece (the favorite: rye highballs; second choice: gin drinks), and some just paid a cover charge to gawk. Perhaps it was the prices, which to many a customer seemed to be over proof. Samples: anywhere from 45? to $1.60 for highballs (1¼ ounces of whiskey per drink), $1.10 for Planter's Punch, 60? for Martinis and Manhattans, 95? for Side Cars, $1.60 for the fancy Zombie (featuring six varieties...
...drew a chorus of disgusted "Eeeks!" A customer at Chicago's Russeks insisted on having her new spring suit cut to knee-length until, after two fittings, she took a trip to New York. Back for a third fitting, she said resignedly: "All right, start all over again-hang the darned thing 14 inches from the floor...