Word: hung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baptist Norris with prodigious ire blasted the Modernists some time ago with a sentence, in scareheads on his Fundamentalist-Baptist Searchlight: "Judas Iscariot, when he betrayed his Lord with 'Hail, Master' on his lips, went and hung himself, but these modern Judases [Liberals] continue to occupy the pulpit and use the name of Christ and live off the money of orthodox people." Dr. Norris reached for a desk drawer. Pious Parson Norris was indicted in 1912 at Fort Worth for perjury and arson in connection with the burning of his church. Disciples did not desert him, rather increased...
White, billowy garments were brought to the condemned. Placards setting forth their guilt were hung about their necks. Attended each by an executioner, they marched in silence to the Smyrna quay...
Three million New York Straphangers hung as usual last week. The subway strike of some 700 "keymen" (motormen and switchmen) had practically failed. Herman A. Metz, one of the three public representatives of the Interborough directorate, refused to recognize the strikers' "outlaw union." The "union" leaders, Herman A. Metz, Harry Bark, Joseph Phelan refused to return on any other basis. Meantime, the I. R. T., bearing in mind the famed Danbury Hatters case, brought suit against the strikers for 239,000 damages ("violation of contract.") Said noted jurist Samuel Untermeyer, "This is a silly and transparent gesture." Manhattan autocrats...
Through an opening in the radio room they saw the body of the operator huddled over his keys. Dead men hung on the valves as they died. Searchers found a body hanging on a pipe in a passageway, its position telling vividly of the man's last gasping struggle for life. The corpses, for the most part, were to be buried with honors at Arlington Cemetery. Six of the ill-fated crew still sleep unredeemed on the ocean...
...signal entitling them to the right of way. They need to follow a direct course (if paying out cable) or to stay with lengthy catch (if mending or taking in line). By day the sign is two red canvas globes with a white diamond between them; by night, lanterns hung, vertically, red above, and below, white between...