Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robber-not a Rapist'' De Boe. No professional, no executioner, Mr. Hanna is a gentleman farmer who lives on land that has been in the family since 1808. . . . He has assisted at some 65 hangings (he does not recall the exact number), has never sprung a trap. Years ago, the revolting sight of a public strangulation as a result of an incorrectly tied noose led Mr. Hanna on a later occasion to offer his knowledge of rope-tying to the White County sheriff. He has since performed the same service elsewhere in Illinois, in Kentucky and, I believe...
...were going down to Paducah for a dance when he marched up the 13 steps to the scaffold to become the first white man hanged for rape in Kentucky's history. What took place between the time he reached the gallows and the time the trap was sprung made news from coast to coast...
...Dunster has not resisted the new order. The same spirit of Iaissez-faire that has given its internal and external attitude of splendid isolation has allowed spontaneous formation of discussion groups. House dinners, dances, and entertainments have sprung from the interest of the undergraduates. There have been no attempts to hold patrol meetings of the tutees of the various departments, but the interest of special groups has not been coldly received. A lack of paternalism combined with friendly cooperation has characterized the attitude of the Staff of the House, and has been in no small measure responsible for its success...
...Sept. 29, 1933 the U. S. Government bought for $46,000 a 1,100-acre farm just outside scraggly little Reedsville in the gentle hills of northwest West Virginia. Thus was launched a prime New Deal scheme, sprung largely from the mind and heart of long-legged, dynamic Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, to give homes and garden-factory livelihoods to stranded U. S. families. Since that time the Government has made a start on 61 other Subsistence Homestead projects, but the one at Reedsville remains the most significant...
Because the Swiss for a long time have been professional neutrals, innkeepers, paid hosts to congresses of tourists, invalids and impotent statesmen, a literary tradition has sprung up that they are a race of small-minded, closefisted, petty burghers, slightly comic but mostly dull." In Via Mala Swiss Author John Knittel goes a long way toward exploding this commercialized tradition, shows that the Swiss, like other people, are human, passionate, beleaguered by all the human vices and virtues. A humane melodrama. Via Mala is written on the socially dangerous and apparently un-Swiss-like theme that...