Word: hung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Emily Fletcher went into her father's room on the morning after he died. "The blanket had been thrown off and hung beside the bed; the sheets seemed clasped between his legs and wound about his body. There was something hideous in his immobility, which was not the repose of sleep." Soon after that morning Emily's grandmother, Mrs. Elliot, came to live at Ashley House, and through its wide dismantled rooms there passed whining draughts of greed & hatred...
...bullet-proof waistcoat and led out to meet his death. He presented a strange appearance -this onetime truculent "El Hombre Sin Vicios" ("The Man Without Vices"). Gone were his Kaiser-like mustachios-he had shaved them off to prevent recognition. His cheeks were sunken and his clothes literally hung on his torso; for in his hunted life in the mountains he had suffered the privations of cold and hunger...
...rigged on the ground a large plate of metal, which was in effect a section of the earth's surface. When a thundercloud hung over his plate and lightning blazed, he found by means of extremely delicate instruments that the electrical potential of the plate changed. This was the electrical image of what happened in the cloud, one surface (usually the upper) was positively charged, the other negatively. When discharge occurred...
...reason for this is clear. After the sen battles with Yale in 1923 and 1924 the mud-caked pants were not hung up in the Fogg Museum; they were washed out for use in spring practice. Even now it is only too true that one may see the numeralled crimson jersey that ripped through the thin blue line in 1926, working on the dummy with the McKinlock second team. Harvard is indicated on the charge of emotional indifference, and all because of the utilitarian souls of Joe Dube and the Harvard athletic Association...
...exhibition of eclectic painters, including Van Dyck, Ribera, Magnasco, and Caravaggio, has been arranged in gallery XVII on the second floor of the Museum. Of particular interest to students of Ingres is a late Venetian "Adoration of the "Magi", recently presented to the Museum by M. Durand-Ruel, which hung for many years in the studio of Ingres in Rome...