Word: hemp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irish idiom, Cork man Gibbings tells the story of two people who were forced to live the lives of Stone Age man and woman in the Australian bush. One was John Graham, a feckless County Cork boy, who was transported for seven years for stealing six pounds of hemp. Assigned as convict-servant to a brutal farmer near Sydney, Graham grew sick and sore at a system by which a man might get as many as 1,600 lashes of a cat-o-nine-tails in a three-year period. He absconded into the bush, preferring (he thought) life among...
...famed three-volume painting primer called The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, compiled between 1679 and 1701 in a small Nanking house (called the Mustard Seed Garden), broke down brush strokes into 16 different categories. Beginning painters were expected to be proficient in each of them, ranging from "hemp fibers" and "ax cuts" to "horses' teeth" and "sesame seeds." But such variety, when carried out by artists with genius at their brush tips, produced some of the most sophisticated and delightful art objects ever created. Among the Ming masters who succeeded...
...lipstick stain on it. At the Marquis de Cuevas' ball in Biarritz two years ago (TIME. Sept. 14, 1953), Ann, dressed as a red devil, reacted violently when she saw her husband dancing with Carmen Sainte, the beautiful Chilean-born wife of a big French rope-and-hemp man. During the dance, Mme. Sainte wrapped her enormous Spanish shawl around Woodward, and the two rumbaed together underneath. Ann fumed up to them, ripped off the shawl, tore Mme. Sainte's dress, slapped her face, slapped Bill, finally had to be forcibly restrained...
...Hemp Is Best. When the book first appeared in England in 1928, it started a storm of controversy, and a Royal Commission later recommended that the death penalty be abolished. After barely failing to vote a temporary end to capital punishent in 1948, Parliament may now debate the matter again, and Author Duff has brought his satire up to date with the latest technical information, plus international statistics. Though about half the nations of the U.N. have abandoned capital punishment, Britain, the Commonwealth and the "more enlightened states" of the U.S. "continue to hang...
...gripping reading and is full of sleep-troubling facts about hangmanship, from an account of distinguished executioners who committed suicide to the sort of wood it is best to use for gallows (teak) to the best rope for hanging a man (¾-in. rope of five strands of Italian hemp...