Word: hung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind a high semicircular counter-like table, a dozen Republicans have sat long and heavily discussing these articles. Behind them hung a rich red curtain, imperially crowned with great loops of gold. Before them was a spacious oblong room with white marble columns, a high vaulted ceiling, huge full-length windows. Outside heavy double doors, securely locked, depended a small sign, bearing the gilt lettering: "Executive Session." A blackamoor has lounged at the entrance to enforce the sign. The sitters within were Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee of the House of Representatives, their heads together on the forthcoming...
...Latter-day Saints. Christian pastors bellowed for his expulsion from the Senate. The ancient horrors of polygamy were dragged out and paraded before the world?despite the fact that polygamy had long since ceased to be a tenet of Mormonism. Humble and meek to a fault, Senator Smoot hung on against this two-year gale of religious disapproval, worked, waited, prayed. At the feet of Aldrich and Penrose and Lodge he became an apt pupil. His ascent to power in the Senate was steady and unspectacular. When North Dakota in 1922 retired Porter James McCumber from the Senate, Senator Smoot...
...Manhattan office of the North German Lloyd, the blow pierced a deep vein of German sentiment; and of the two principal officials one sobbed as only a man can, while the other sat for a time stunned with grief. Naturally, however, the blackest pall of German grief hung thickly over Hamburg...
...Garfield Wood, Gar Wood for short, and this was his answer to the disappointing race of a fortnight ago, won on points by the British speedfiend and automobile racer Henry O'Neil Dehane Segrave in a leaky boat at 61 m. p. h. With his record hung up, Gar Wood stepped out of his boat, forgot it, and set to work designing another boat to go even faster. His first racer was a panting dinghy that the experimental Gar teased up to eight miles an hour by squirting raw gasoline into the air bell of the motor with...
Hitherto Germany's representative−her famed "Iron Man," Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank−had hung doggedly to $332,000,000 as the greatest sum the Reich could possibly pay. Last week, however, he appeared so struck by the figure $420,000,000 that, clapping on a Hamburg hat and greatcoat, he caught the Nord Express for Germany...