Word: hashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charter members of the G.O. P., Whittier always voted Republican. After the Civil War had settled the Abolitionists' hash, Whittier had had enough of radicalism. When William Dean Howells was circulating a petition for clemency for the Chicago anarchists (1887), Whittier refused to sign it. A thrifty Yankee, he spent little, invested wisely, left $125,000 when he died...
...Hash...
...consists of 78 syllables, and 169 letters (in Greek). It is denned in Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (edition 1863) as "the name of a dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish, flesh, and fowl." What a way to spell hash...
...made his characters tell the tale, and thereby lost the godlike detachment of the theme; he has tried the balled stanza and has made a Indicrous failure of that difficult form so losing all claim to poetic merit. Use of the classic device anacolnthon has made ungrammatical hash, unpalatable, wretched English, as witness the line. "Yet many, like myself, am slave." This is not to say that there are no good lines in the poem, nor that the treatment in places is not amazingly fine, but the whole is no better than its average, and the average entices the reader...
...Grove and his principal aides, the Government announced, were carried by a destroyer to Chile's Mas-a-Tierra ("Robinson Crusoe") Island and there imprisoned. In 1930 Col. Grove, after making a hash of the revolution his friends attempted then, was exiled to this same island, escaped...