Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure what his opinions are. He is of course opposed to the New Deal. On foreign relations, he apparently regards himself as a "nationalist," but not an isolationist. "Nationalism" might mean world cooperation based on legitimate self-interest-or it might mean letting the rest of the world go hang...
...Wrote a correspondent from Norfolk: "Whereas, before Pearl Harbor, the majority of Norfolk's prostitutes were professionals, today probably 85% to 90% are amateurs. Many are young girls lured to Norfolk by the promise of big-paying jobs. Hundreds of these girls arrive each week. They hang around bus terminals while phoning for a room somewhere. . . . Farm girls and clerks from small towns find it easy to have all the men they want . . . many do not charge for their services...
Buildings that look like barns-which many people consider very beautiful-have made the reputation of Pietro Bel-luschi, architect of Portland, Ore. This week for the first time he plans to hang out his own shingle. He will hang it on the same Jefferson Street house (under Portland's Vista ''Suicide" Bridge), long occupied by the defunct firm of which he had been a member (A. E. Doyle & Associate...
...Democrat in G.O.P. clothing rose and cheered. Next day a reception was hastily cooked up; Wendell Willkie's old enemies came in droves, no GOPster dared stay away. Then came the final tribute: State Chairman Ralph Gates asked Wendell Willkie for his picture, he wanted to hang it in State Headquarters...
Each morning at 8:50 the school assembles for prayers read by the headmaster from a dais behind which hang the school's wartime honor rolls (in the present war 20 old boys have been killed, ten are missing). Lessons start at 9:15. In the school work, each class keeps to its room, the teachers circulate. At 11 studies are interrupted while the pupils drink milk and the teachers retire for coffee and a smoke. At lunchtime over one-third of the children buy a hot lunch at school, a few eat cold box lunches, the rest...