Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some footnotes require more work and research than the stories they hang from, and it is a rare footnote that doesn't produce some interesting and unexpected result. For instance, Managing Editor T. S. Matthews dropped a footnote - definitely on the learned side - from a Science story about the chimney swift. The footnote was a stanza from a poem about a curlew, by W. B. Yeats. A researcher who was dispatched to the public library to find and check the verse, being in no mood to go through all of Yeats' works, finally telephoned the English department...
...phone rings this week and somebody says cagily, "This is the Student Employment Office," hang...
...eagle provide, the $195 assessment for the summer term meant cashing in bonds, a quick trip to the favorite Dean, a chit to see Dean Sperry at the Divinity School, or a combination of all three. And, at the same time, the $195 bill became an obligation that must hang over the vet's head until the monthly good news from Washington finally clears...
...death cell at Lethbridge, Schwalb said: "Canada will never hang us. It was so stupid of you people to spend all that money on trials for us, because we are going to get off." But Schwalb was wrong. One midnight last week the guards marched him twelve steps to the gallows, strapped him hand & foot. Schwalb stiffened to attention, and shouted in English: "My führer, I follow thee!" Then they slipped a noose around his neck and pulled it tight. The trap was sprung. It was the first time a prisoner of war had ever been executed...
...same case a third P.O.W., Corporal Johannes Wittinger, was acquitted. For another, unrelated P.O.W. camp killing, a fourth German was convicted and sentenced to hang at Medicine Hat last week, and three other Germans were awaiting trial...