Word: hempen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most of the men were standing on a heavy wooden platform, slung below the rail-girders on steel beams. They were yanking away the boards from beneath the hardened concrete floor of the 4,200-ft. span. Two men were below them picking fallen boards out of the stout hempen safety net that stretched the whole length of the span...
...Orleans declared: "I have dedicated my life to the extermination of Huey Long md all his kind from politics. I am not here to talk, but to listen to what you want me to do." "If it is necessary to teach them decency at the end of a hempen rope," cried Mayor George W. Hardy Jr. of Shreveport, "I, for one, am willing to swing the rope!" Adjourning with the angry cry that the next time they returned to the State capital it would be with pistols, the crowd went home to organize a Statewide body of anti-Long vigilantes...
...lights cannot make a poor picture good, but it can more than satisfy the greediest publicity manager of Hollywood and furnish ample opportunity for the exercise of his pre-view talent. Little need be said of the spider web which ironically enough must develop at times into a stout hempen rope, that gives excuse for the presence of George M. Cohan. And it does not content itself with a single exhibition of its star but must with unparalleled magnanimity, offer him to the audience twice, once as T.K. Blair, the nominee for the presidency of the land, and again...