Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lethal gas chamber at Canon City last week Warden Roy Best put a crated hog. When he turned on the gas the hog squealed, struggled, died. Next into the chamber he put an old dog, a pigeon, a brace of canaries. They all died. Nearby in a cell sat William Cody Kelley, shifty-eyed farmhand. Refused clemency, he prayed quietly for his pretty 23-year-old wife, his 4-month-old baby. Unable to finance an appeal, he was to be the first man executed in Colorado without a review of his case by the State Supreme Court...
...objections raised against it, would give its organization a thoroughgoing overhauling during the summer when Congress would no longer be in Washington to peer over the mechanics' shoulders. Reported, but denied by General Johnson as "pure fabrications" which "might as well have been written in a padded cell,"were insistent predictions that all but some 25 basic codes for big industries would be junked...
...Institute in Berlin, where she had, appeared in protest at haying been brutally beaten, kicked threatened, frightened near to death, and was black and blue from head to foot that very moment. She had been dragged from her hotel in her night robe, flung into a stone ice-cold cell, held there incommunicado for 28, hours "Bertillioned," beaten sneered at, threatened with sexual assault, witnessing the beating to death of some poor Jew before her cell there, lost her voice from fright, scared by a huge police dog being sicked onto her, kept from a toilet all the 28 hours...
...Fort Worth, Tex., one W. D. May, mail robber and murderer, marched out of his death cell. Beside him, Rev. Aimer Kelly intoned Biblical texts. At the prison washhouse, the procession stopped. Said May: "I've accepted Christ. I'm a changed man." Into a bathtub of cold water he wedged himself. Down under the water Mr. Kelly shoved his head. Said Mr. Kelly: "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." Up came Murderer May, prepared to meet his death...
...Hecht and Director Roy Del Ruth let the audience's sympathies waver between the honest railman and the honest officer. Yet when the case is broken by newshawks and the picture moves to its routine end, everyone appears to have forgotten the policeman, last seen in his cell. Good shot: Toler losing his best piece of evidence, in the Police Commissioner's office...