Word: hung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nation's portrait painters. Their fame spread far and wide, to England where Nancy Langhorne, as Viscountess Astor, brought beauty and sharp wits to Parliament; to Manhattan, where Irene Langhorne became the wife of Charles Dana Gibson, noted artist in pen and ink, who hung her picture from a myriad mouldings, the original "Gibson girl...
...Thirteen years ago Thomas Fleming Day, deep sea voyager, hung a one-cylinder Evinrude over the side of a twelve-ft. dinghy and chugged 233 nautical miles from New York to Boston to test the reliability of the newly discovered, much-criticized outboard motor. A power cruiser accompanying the dinghy broke down twice, three times. Pioneer Day completed the course. His time: 52 hrs., 47 minutes...
Revolutionary soldiers drag their commander, Li Yuan-hung out from under his wife's bed. The year is 1911. Li protests. He is loyal to the Manchu Emperor. No! He will not lead the soldiers as a unit in the great revolution!! But then, on second thought, he does...
...conceit, gratitude or a mixture of both, one Frances Clyne, Manhattan dressmaker, made arrangements to secure an entire room in the Anderson Galleries, generally hung with several score of paintings, so that she could hang in it one large, lonely painting. Conceit may have been her motive, for the canvas was an oil portrait of herself, its owner. Gratitude may more probably have been her motive, for the picture showed a lovely lady; its maker was Frederic Beltram-Masses whom, since he portrayed her in Spain two years ago, Frances Clyne has been booming as a painter of people...
Died. General Li Yuan-hung, last constitutional president of China, deposed in 1923; at Tientsin...