Word: gibbet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made a law. The next Quaker to land would get one ear lopped off. If he came back, off with the other ear! If yet again he returned, his tongue was to be pierced by a red-hot iron. These provisions failing, however, to deter the Quakers, presently the gibbet was invoked and four Quakers were hanged, one of them a woman...
...Orleans. Always he pursued women, stole at a whim, strained at a bottomless tankard. And always he was freed from the dungeons (often by the services of the influential priest whom he called "my more than father"). Back in Paris, at the age of 31, he faced the gibbet of Montfaucon for a second time, was again liberated, sentenced to ten years' exile. With a farewell to his impoverished mother, whom he continually tried to comfort, he vanished from the city and from history...
...Frankau relates how he prognosticated the General Strike "way back in 1923" but was, like Cassandra, ignored. He goes on to reveal that upon a proscription list found in a Communistic den his name stood second only to that of Winston Churchill. Third in line for the gibbet was Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary of Mr, Baldwin's cabinet...
...Democrats. He is a downright fellow. Of late a good deal of his time has been taken in putting through Administration measures-the World Court and the tax bill. There is Walsh; he is the Democrat's hanging prosecutor, only he hasn't found any Republican to gibbet for the public recently. That other man with the wavy, black hair is Pat Harrison, a first-rate denouncer. There was a time when Harrison poured Greek fire on the Republicans, and Walsh poured quick lime...
Hung, elegant among the rabble, were two women. They did not twist in grisly contortion from any gibbet's arm, not they, but sat side by side upon a sofa which George Bellows had painted. Now, for all the intimacy of their attitudes, there was a difference in the semblance, perhaps in the very characters of these two women, apparent at once to the least curious eye, for whereas the one was garbed in all the nicety which the prevailing mode dictates, the other was naked Mr. Bellows was more successful in drawing attention to his painting than...