Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outdoor Housekeeping. We saw washing on little lines strung up anywhere, on a wire fence, between two bumpers, two branches, across the pavement. During the hot days they wore trunks of the briefest style, looked very healthy and brown, and happy too. They really behaved like boys, playing ball, wrestling, and all sorts of queer games, and how they loved harmonicas, banjos and guitars...
...music and literature were strung over the battleground. Sculptor Jo Davidson, engineering a Term IV musical show in Madison Square Garden, had to choose from a wealth of volunteers: Lily Pons, Duke Ellington, Yehudi Menuhin, Marian Anderson. Dinah Shore, Grace Moore, Gene Krupa. Anti-New Deal writers Ru pert Hughes, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Kenneth Roberts, Louis Bromfield, Channing Pollock and Booth Tarkington plotted a Republican victory, and Dorothy Parker, in a big new pirate's hat, furiously attended Term IV luncheons...
...drove through heavy waves of sweet-smelling air where hundreds of dead Germans, pocketed in mountain hideouts, had been pulverized by the artillery barrage. Whole hillsides were reduced to rubble. The crests of the rocky knolls strung out along the entire breadth of the Gothic Line were sprayed with dead Germans wiped out by long-range artillery and bypassed by hard-pushing infantry...
...Caretta, deposed boss of the infamous Regina Coeli jail and a prosecution witness. Men & women spat at him, screeched at him, kicked him, slugged him. They threw him in the Tiber. Boatmen bashed in his head with heavy oars, towed his lifeless body to the jail. Then the people strung him head down and near-naked from his prison's bars. The Government decided to postpone Caruso's trial...
From Germany last week came a steady flow of reports and rumors which might or might not be true, might or might not be propaganda plants. Strung together they read like the symptoms of advancing schizophrenia...