Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that's all over now. . . . There's no fight left in any of them. All they want is a chance to work so they can eat. . . . Nobody steals around here. There's nothing to steal. Half the people haven't a table or a chair-had to sell them to buy bread...
...their own clothing, cook and serve their food, run a farm, a school, a library, a chapel, a laundry, a barber shop, a sewage system, a factory which turns out $650,000 worth of products a year, a power plant which, incidentally, supplies the "juice" used in the electric chair...
...business of placing the condemned man in the electric chair is quickly and simply done. Then-"as the switch is thrown into its socket there is a sputtering drone, and the body leaps as if to break the strong leather straps that hold it. Sometimes a thin gray wisp of smoke pushes itself out from under the helmet that holds the head electrode, followed by the faint odor of burning flesh. The hands turn red, then white, and the cords of the neck stand out like steel bands. After what seems an age, but is. in fact, only two minutes...
...Significance. Warden Lawes does not believe in capital punishment. He would substitute life imprisonment for the electric chair. He has great faith in the well-run prison, for long terms or short. To the freed convict, he would have society give a more gentlemanly chance than it now does...
Robert Cecil. ". . . his presence was sweet and grave. . . . He was all mild reasonableness-or so it appeared, until he left his chair, stood up, and unexpectedly revealed the stunted discomfort of deformity. Then another impression came upon one-the uneasiness produced by an enigma: what could the combination of that beautifully explicit countenance with that shameful, crooked posture really betoken? He returned to the table, and once more took up his quill; all, once more, was perspicuous serenity...