Word: hangings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...socially penetrating Cosmo Hamilton. Into a household lately bereft of its entire corps of servitors, he introduces a quartette of nobles from the vicinity of the Volga. One of these is smitten with an urge to paint and secures permission to copy a trio of Rembrandts which hang in the family mansion. The discovery that the priceless canvases have been removed from their frames in favor of the copies requires the services of a detective. Nobility is incarcerated in the wood cellar. The subsequent denouement is so uniquely ingenious that no journalistic commentary can disclose it with propriety. Indeed...
Artists feel it would be inappropriate to take the picture from among its fellows and hang it in the Louvre as a solitary example of American art, although Whistler himself despised most American art and dreamed of the hereafter when he should be given Louvre wall-space...
Unless one is a rabid isolationist determined to let the rest of the world go hang, one must admit that the Bok Prize Plan is one the whole a sound and well-reasoned document. The first provision--to join the World Court--has already received wide-spread public approval, and the many refinements which have been made upon whether this does or does not mean getting sucked into the League of Nations are cast aside by the second provision. The latter provides for a gradual widening of American cooperation with the League which would lead eventually to membership pari passu...
Senator Borah: "No, not all of them, but you can deport those who are not an'd hang the balance...
...Pennsylvania's 78 delegates, and Senator La Follette, who will have Wisconsin's delegation and some other votes from the Northwest. But because of Mr. La Follette's ill health and his "insurgency" he is not regarded as a serious contender. On the outskirts will hang several favorite sons, such as ex-Governor Lowden of Illinois, Senator Watson of Indiana and Judge Kenyon of Iowa, eager to step forward if the Coolidge forces should slip or fall into a deadlock with Senator Johnson-but not otherwise likely to be active...