Word: hung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt left the train. Photographers recorded the solemn occasion (see cut). It was announced that next day's White House press conference was cancelled lest anything the President might say be misunderstood in war-frightened Europe. The impression was that Washington expected the worst hourly, that Peace hung by a heartstring...
...Side Chicago hotel last April 6, firemen and a coroner's jury said it was an unfortunate accident. But around the city room of the Hearst Herald & Examiner, reporters told each other there was something funny about that fire.* When they had nothing more pressing to do, they hung around the neighborhood, asked questions. Last week the Herex, which has hung many a ring-around-the-rosy scoop on its dignified morning competitor, the Tribune, blazed forth with exclusive "confessions" from two poolroom loungers, Frank Kolesiak and Emil Guerrieri, that they started the fire because they were "insulted...
...stiffly-painted garments and the delicate colors, lemon yellow and pearl grey, setting off the deep blue of Christ's robe. Dutch visitors, who like to look at works of art in absolute silence, complained that the parquet flooring in the room where Christ at Emmaus is hung was noisy. Carpets were immediately provided and religious silence prevailed...
...apartment where six countrymen, haggard with overwork and economizing, slept in shifts. They worked in the railroad shop, made $1.50 a day, saved most of it. In a shoe factory Stoyan got $7 a week; room was 50? a month, board $1 a week. In his spare time he hung out in a Greek coffee shop, whose proprietor used words like "status quo," "ukase," gave attentive Stoyan the valuable advice that "you must learn to read, write and speak English in one operation." He told him to read signs, wrappers on packages, etc., for, said the Greek, "English is spread...
...peer into their pool from a steep rock bank high enough so no bear can stand on its hind legs and claw the customers. While Joseph Pacreau peered, one bear heaved itself awkwardly on to the back of another bear, got hold of Joseph Pacreau's arm, hung on till a keeper arrived and rapped it smartly on the nose...