Word: gibbeted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regret is at his final end-an end due only to the blindness of his love, which leads him to kill his best friend and finally to deliver himself to his enemies in order to show the faithless Spaniard that he is no coward. And as he mounts his gibbet comes the word from her that what befalls him is nothing to her, and that their child is none...
...Before going he declared: "The leases we signed for Naval Reserve No. 1 are the best the United States ever got financially. And now let me tell you something else about them. Admiral Robison when I last saw him said to me: 'Doheny, they may put up one gibbet and hang me on it and another gibbet and hang you beside me. If they do I'll die happy in the knowledge that we have saved the Pacific coast from attack. We have done our duty to the United States. We have made it possible to protect...
...this there is naught that is novel. Old histories of Paris and London tell of the concourses which attended Charles Duval, Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard and other criminal worthies on their way to the gibbet at Tyburn and Montfaucon as the case might be. More recently this country witnessed the public testimonials paid to the life and character of Jesse James, Civil War guerrilla and highwayman, whose dashing bank raids are now so much affected. James was shot from behind by a comrade, Bob Ford, as he lay concealed in his hiding place. The American public was angered...