Word: girdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assuming the attitude in an electric chair and it is based on the unscientific theory that a man's life unreels itself, complete with dialog, in the two seconds between the first twitch of the electricity and unconsciousness. Recapitulating, Robinson sees himself as a happy steelworker on a girder with his friend (Preston Foster). Soon, still happy, he is refusing to get involved with a pretty, scheming dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne). She fills him full of liquor and marries him anyway and he is marked for the electric chair. In defending her against his best friend's cynicisms...
...cellophane coating on every duralumin* girder of the Akron's framework, wherever it is touched by the envelope. Purpose: to protect the metal against the acid in the "dope" with which the envelope is varnished...
...holes punched in every duralumin girder to lighten it until it looks like a piece of metal lace (yet the girder is made stronger than before by flanging the edges of the holes...
...steel girder left leaning against the wall of Arizona's State Penitentiary at Florence provided the means of a leisurely escape for 15 prisoners, who climbed over at intervals while a guard's back was turned. One was recaptured, the rest made off across the badlands in a body...
...Hoot also gibed at the "girder-Gothic" which its editor claims has turned the library into a "fortress." The architects are severely criticized for squandering money on "bogus Elizabethan mansions" for students who have no desire to live in them...