Word: hung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Bennett Bizzell, President of the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.: "I held my breath and swallowed hard; I tried coughing, sneezing, pounding my chest, clearing my throat; I went to a hospital-but still could not stop an attack of hiccoughing which hung upon me last week for two days and two nights. It would have afforded me small comfort to know that King George V's chaplain, the Very Rev. Dean Albert Victor Baillie of St. George's (Knights of the Garter) Chapel at Windsor Castle, England, was similarly afflicted in Manhattan four years ago, while...
Conspicuous among the new body lines were those of Hudson-Essex which have eliminated the angles on hood and radiator; on the Reo Flying Cloud which is a lower hung and much "snappier" revision of previous Reos; in Stutz which exhibited a fabric body...
Among the sportier introductions was the low-hung Six Cylinder Jordan (green finish with khaki top). Chevrolet had a-"Sport Cabriolet" which is a coupé of roadster type: an enclosed front compartment with a rumble seat in back. The Chevrolet line is now finished in grey and uses disc wheels. Chevrolet advertising spoke of "the most outstanding automotive success in recent years." For other cars, other merits were advertised...
...answers in written form, took the answers back to the U. S., pondered them well. Then, for two years, Studebaker engineers and body designers pored over blueprints, utilized proving grounds-and produced the Erskine Six. It is a small car (no smaller than an Overland Whippet). It is low-hung; has a small, high speed, high compression motor; "2 1/3 litres," the advertising says - which is the Parisian way of saying that a motor is 40 horsepower...
...Mount Prospect, 111., one Ernest Grimm, farmer, killed a skunk that nad long haunted the adjoining farm of his cousin, Edward Grimm. With clothespin on nose, Ernest Grimm skinned the skunk, hung the pelt in his barn. In the night Edward Grimm made off with the pelt. A skunk caught on his land, he remarked when he met his cousin next day, was his skunk. Words followed. In the lonely barnyard, Grimm fought Grimm. Ernest, with a slap of his hand, broke the nose, already inflamed, of Edward. Edward brought suit for $5,000 for assault and battery...