Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strapped onto a massive chair in a room gradually filling with gas fumes, a husky, 20-year-old Negro in white trunks coughed, clenched his fists, expanded his chest and fiercely cried: "Joe Louis!" Such was the death two years ago of Allen Foster, first criminal to be executed in the lethal gas chamber of the North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh. The Foster execution lasted eleven minutes, provoked a storm of newspaper criticism. Today lethal gas executions are legal in six States besides North Carolina-Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, and Cali-fornia-and are increasingly efficient...
Last week 30 spectators flattened their noses curiously, against a bullet-proof glass wall in California's San Quentin prison to watch a preview of a lethal chamber which its makers, Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, thought would end all such doubt. Resting on a chair inside was a cage in which waited a small, reddish-brown pig. When a lever was pulled, dropping 16 cyanide eggs into pans of sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died...
...occasionally cheered during a speech sponsored by Harvard University's Young Conservatives last week, Rev. Gerald L. K. ("Share the Wealth") Smith, erstwhile spiritual adviser to the late Senator Huey P. Long, declared that "rabble-rousing is needed to bring the country out of chaos," urged that "a chair of rabble-rousing" be established at Harvard...
...unwound his large and straightened up in his chair. "Say, I have seen you before somewhere," he accused her. "And my name is Vag! Now when was it?" he demanded...
...poking the keys with a pencil held between her teeth. With a brush between her teeth she tinted photographs, made drawings. She was careful of her appearance, applied her own cosmetics by moving her face against lipsticks and powderpuffs. Her parents took her to the cinema in her wheel chair...