Word: hung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile some 1,800 delegates to the Mississippi Flood Control Conference clapped hands, stamped feet, as the Mayor mounted a platform over which hung a gigantic banner inscribed with the words, "America First." From the Sherman lobby came, intermittently, strains of a fife & drum corps which, aided by placards, advertised the conference...
...arch the arch Communist of Royalist France ? and of the respectively, Royalist editor Leon Daudet newspaper L'Action Française and the leading Communist Deputy, Marcel Cachin. These gentlemen were told that they must at once set a time convenient to themselves to serve jail sentences which have hung over each for almost two years. Since their was crimes were extended by political, French this custom ? courtesy based on the theory that it is foolish to make martyrs out of men whose crime is too much talk against the Government. Jailed they would talk louder, martyred they might...
...work of the gorilla-collecting museum expedition on which her husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies...
...Hollisheimer had always been climbers, and it was with ease that Appleby crawled hand over hand over gargoyle and Cicero, smokestack and Dante, to the face of the clock. He leaped up, caught one of the hands of the clock and hung there. His weight was just enough to stay the course of time...
...high honor was recently paid Dean Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Law School, when a large portrait of him was hung by the Northwestern University School of Law in the faculty room of the law library at Evanston. In this room are a number of other oil portraits of former Northwestern law professors...