Word: hung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glasgow, Scotland, the Students' Union was a bedlam. The air was filled with tobacco smoke, flying playing-cards, the words and music of a slightly ribald chant, "Oh, Aimee, dear Aimee, we all love you so!" Hung in the hall were signs: GOOD OLD WHISKEY! LADIES MAY SMOKE! SCOTCH WHISKEY IS GOOD FOR ALL COMPLEXIONS! Vitreous vessels, onetime containers of whiskey, stout, champagne, were in idle profusion-all dedicated to the embarrassment of Aimee Semple McPherson, notorious evangelist who inadvertently had chosen university election time to speak to the studentry. Pitifully, persistently she tried to make herself heard above...
...born in those parts. By "wattles" it seems that they mean the skinny, baggy fore part of a typical Vermonter's throat. I like the expression so well that I want to be reminded of it by having a copy of TIME'S cartoon framed and hung in my den. Your cartoonist has put prime "wattles" on President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg, Senator Vare, Senator Borah and "Big Bill" Thompson. HENRY HARRIMAN TYLER New Rochelle...
...Monte Arbino, 9,000 feet above the level of the sea, was seen to quiver. One rock, then another, bounced and skidded down the mountain's side. Finally the whole peak slid clumsily into the surrounding valley. A huge cloud of dust spouted upward, for several days hung heavily over the scene of the avalanche...
...Fogg Art Museum opened a new display last Saturday, the most interesting paintings being a collection of watercolors by Homer and Sargent. A valuable Sixteenth Century tapestry depicting Hercules against a verdure background, the gift of Augustus Hemenway '75, has been hung in the great hall. This tapestry is particularly good in design and distinct in color...
...William James and Charles Horace Mayo, surgeons, dedicated their newest "mouse trap," a 19 story clinic building at Rochester, Minn., with a great ringing of a twenty-bell carillon hung in the tower. Their father, Dr. William Worrell Mayo, had settled in Rochester 65 years ago. When his sons hesitated in opening practice at the isolated small town, he persuaded them with Emerson's: "If you build a better mousetrap than your neighbor...