Word: hung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought the turreted Potter Palmer house which occupies nearly a block on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, hung it with Rembrandts and Christys (Howard Chandler), dubbed it the Bendix Galleries and lost it after paying $1,250,000 on its $3,000,000 purchase price...
...Bethlen became Premier, Hungary was undergoing a bloody White terror, production was at a standstill, the Government was almost powerless, and Republicans and Legitimists were cutting each other's throats. No one expected him to last any longer than his short- lived predecessors, but the Count surprised everybody, hung on for more than ten years, set an endurance record for Premiers in post-War Europe. The first problem facing him was what to do about the Emperor Charles's attempt to regain the Hungarian throne. Republicanism ran against the Count's aristocratic grain, but he knew that...
...this exhibit we are brought face to face with the frank and unpretentious nature of real people, real feelings, and real situations. That most of the paintings were framed and hung by members of the Museum Class contributes not a little toward making the exhibit something more than a vapid supplement to an afternoon tea party. There is nothing in the whole collection reminiscent of the phrase "art for art's sake," that syrupy expression which connotes lack of sincerity: in short, lack of something to say. Therefore, those people who attend art exhibits because it is the thing...
Resurgent Cornell, which now constitutes the biggest hurdle for the Crimson to pass, continued its sensational streak by trouncing Yale 5 to 2. Walt Sickles, Sophomore hurling star, hung up his fourth win in five games for the Big Red. The Stahlmen have yet to face Cornell in Ithaca, but the Big Red and the Big Green still have a two game series to play...
Harvard's well-balanced Freshman nine hung up its twelfth win of the season against two losses, as they toppled undefeated Andover, 5 to 2 on Saturday afternoon...