Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States ports; of these 12 only eight cleared for United Kingdom ports. I might say slightly below 40 per cent. He based his information "according to our composite records, which we believe to be complete." Now what happens to the convoy excuse of those who are willing to hang on to and exploit any rumor, no matter how vague and tenuous, in order to lead the people of the United States until they are checkmated into active belligerency? Jordan Whitelaw...
...imposition of a new surtax which starts at 11% and mounts with each $2,000 income increase to 75% (as at present) on highest-bracket incomes. To this surtax was to be added a special defense supertax. Result: 4% normal tax plus surtax plus supertax. Heaviest increases would hang on incomes from...
What a road home, like traveling over sand dunes, but we are on the way home. Arrive in camp in the evening singing: "We'll hang out our washing on the El Wakline." There's a brandy issue. Glorious mail, my stretcher has arrived and another parcel. Two gallons of water per man. Dig a hole, put my ground sheet in-makes a perfect bath and lie flat on my back in the water reading my post-of such is the Kingdom of Heaven...
...before it was over he left for Paris and Brussels, drifted later to the U.S. Exiled and running low on funds in Manhattan, Souto was lucky enough to get friends to stake him to last week's exhibition expenses, persuaded Knoedler's swank 57th Street Gallery to hang his pictures on speculation. By week's end neither his friends nor Knoedler's were disappointed. In the first five days of the exhibition Arturo Souto, had sold twelve paintings, (at $75 to $500), one of them to Frank Jewett Mather Jr., famed art critic and onetime Princeton...
...Taking Painter Benton at his word, Manhattan Impresario Billy Rose last week asked for and succeeded in borrowing Benton's most saloon-worthy canvas, the famed, undraped Persephone, to hang in his revamped cabaret, the Diamond Horseshoe. Said Rose: "You've got the painting; I've got the saloon...