Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Penitentiary at Salt Lake City one dawn last week, hooded and clutching a crucifix after a last-minute shift from Mormonism to Roman Catholicism, Delbert Green was led out into a dirt courtyard, strapped in a chair against a wall. A physician pressed a stethoscope to his heart, then pinned a red target with a yellow bulls-eye over it. Green's executioners stood 26 ft. away across the court, their guns, of which one contained a blank cartridge, poked through slits in the screen that hid their identity. At the Sheriff's signal, they fired...
...murdering his wife, was led out to say good-by to his prison mates. He jerked away from his guard, raced up two flights to a balcony, plunged down to the concrete 30 ft. below. Two hours later Henry Grier, crushed, bleeding and unconscious, was carried to an electric chair, executed...
...last month, found his condition ''satisfactory for his age." Chief trouble, Vatican attendants admitted, is that the Pope, once a sturdy mountain climber, finds it difficult not only to walk but to breathe easily. In all his daily activities he now is borne about in a sedan chair, or in his ceremonial sedia gestatoria (portable throne). Near the Benediction Hall, where Pius XI holds audiences, there has been set up behind a red curtain a portable washstand and toilet, with a cabinet containing first-aid medicaments. To this, and presumably to one like it at Castel Gandolfo...
...ambulance which had been hidden behind bushes slipped up to the train. Mr. Morgan in a dark blue silk lounging robe, white flannel trousers, a white silk scarf, was wheeled to the railroad car's rear door. Four men lifted Mr. Morgan & chair to the ground. The ambulance's stretcher on wheels was ready. Mr. Morgan, his legs dangling, partially helped himself to the stretcher, partially was lifted. Soon as he arranged himself comfortably, bearers swung the stretcher into the ambulance, bounced the patient against the ambulance roof. He uttered no sound...
...flyer, later that day, spied Mr. Morgan lounging in a wheel chair on a sunny terrace, reading a newspaper. That day also, J. P. Morgan & Co. and Drexel & Co. issued a joint statement of their banking conditions as of June 30. Their total assets...