Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sincere sympathy. On his mother's side are three idiots and one jailbird of record, and nobody on the father's side of the house can count above four. With that start in life, he faces a world that will scorn and abuse and eventually hang him through no fault...
...weather, which delays clearing the nets, many a fisherman will work from before dawn until midnight. This year they will labor anxiously. Reason: recently OPA pegged the price of herring before the run at about 3? a pound. Fishermen snorted like Paul Bunyan's blue ox, threatened to hang up their nets. OPA relented, reclassified some of them as wholesalers entitled to 7? a pound. This week, as rumors of further changes ran through the villages fringing Lakes Superior and Michigan, fishermen kept one eye on Superior's net-ripping, boat-smashing winter weather, the other...
People who do not get seasick find seasickness uproariously funny. People who do get seasick want to die. Wit is no longer witty, companionship no longer desirable. They want to be alone. Then they want something to hang on to while they go through the misery of turning themselves inside out. When they are convalescent, they feel at peace. But sometimes it takes a long time to convalesce...
...deal, why just hang round awhile...
...Room. In the State Department building is an office with a door marked in gold letters. "General of the Armies." A beribboned colonel sits inside the door. General Pershing's own room is beyond. The room is blue-carpeted; on its walls hang four portraits of America's dead and buried Generals: Washington, Grant, Sherman. Sheridan. There is a fireplace, but there is no fire in it. There is a large desk but no one sits there. The long mirror hanging over the cold fireplace reflects no living presence. The office of the General of the Armies...