Word: gibbets
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...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...
...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...