Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From equally ever-ready Psychologist James F. Bender, the men learned how to hang on to their wives. Dr. Bender, director of the National Institute of Human Relations, recommended more thoroughgoing kissing...
...besieging the New Haven Street Railway. Travelling in large groups, the Elis attack the waiting streetcar in flying wedge formation and contrive to place their dates in some available seat. They then retire to the outer extremities of the car and seize upon some handy appendage from which they hang for the rest of the ride. As this handy appendage is frequently the collar of another Eli who in turn is hanging over the side of the car, it is possible to make the mile and a half trip to the Bowl without ever actually touching the trolley...
Four days after the election, President Truman threw in the sponge in his administration's long-lost battle to hang on to price controls. In one sweeping order, the President brushed off price controls on everything but sugar and rice (both in short supply) and on rents. Out went the last wage and salary controls...
...bleak Gallows Hill, where Salem (Mass.) used to hang its witches', the staff of the M.I.T. Voo Doo had some good, clean fun last week with Harvard's Lampoon. Anybody who bought the magazine, they decided, was surely bewitched. So they tried the Lampoon (in absentia?) for witchcraft, hanged it in effigy, burned it atop a pyre of barrels and went home feeling as triumphant as the M.I.T. men of an earlier generation who soldered up Harvard's gates and painted John Harvard's statue a bright...
Most artists are fussy about their paints, but few go to such lengths as Berlin-born Karl Zerbe. His pictures, which hang in 21 U.S. museums, are painted in colors mixed with hot beeswax over a stove, and afterwards cooked into the canvas with an electric heater. The Greeks had a word for it: encaustic. The Egyptians and Greeks liked encaustic for its permanency, used it for murals and mummy portraits. But since the 10th Century few painters had bothered with...