Word: rehung
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...draperies had to be replaced because Lanza's dogs preferred them to trees or fire hydrants, 2) the roof leaked badly after TV Fan Lanza's five antennas were ripped out, 3) a hand-carved piano leg was tooth-carved, 4) all doors had to be rehung. Wailed Mrs. Kaiser: "[Amidst] the debris, dirt, filth and desecration . . . only the ceilings were intact." Couple of days later, a long-postponed suit, brought against ex-Tenant Lanza by another Hollywood landlord asking $17,000 for Lanzarations wrought on another $200,000 mansion, came up for trial, was again...
...resident aesthetes, dressed in bandit costumes, returned the Gauguin reproduction at dinner Monday night. The college has taken the masterpiece into custody. It will not be rehung in Whitman...
...world's largest bell (200 tons) is in Moscow's Kremlin. It fell and cracked in 1737, was never rehung, and never rung again...
...their Astor Street apartment for one evening and into the massive family mansion on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive moved Mr. & Mrs- Potter Palmer. Cleaned, redecorated, refurnished from warehouses, rehung with what paintings had not been given to galleries, the long-time citadel of Chicago society was open for the first time in two years for the debut of the Palmers' youngest daughter Pauline. That night 300 socialites rolled up to the carriage porch, hurried across the mosaic reception hall, danced in the highceilinged, velvet-paneled ballroom where the first Mrs. Palmer entertained King Edward VII, then Prince...
...verily it appears that our sword of Damocles has only been rehung almost out of sight above us, less oppressive but more terrible; for according to Dr. Aston there is always the possibility that if the experiment were performed at some time in the future the energy liberated might prove completely uncontrollable. Its intense violence might detonate all neighboring substance and the result of this most successful experiment be published to the rest of the universe in the form of a new star of extraordinary brilliancy...