Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chemist." But he surprised his critics by suddenly taking himself off to the Island of Sakhalin, Russian penal colony, and doing a book about conditions there which brought about reforms. With a sidelong glance at his critics, he said: "I am glad that these stiff prison overalls hang in my literary wardrobe...
...once heard an old salt settle an argument about the extent of the Admiralty's legal authority: ''I tells you all that the Admiralty can do what they like with us. They can hang us, they can shoot us, and they can drown us. There's only two things they can't do to us: they can't boil us in the coppers and they can't put us in the family way." He is equally delighted to remember the disdain of one Chawbags Bayly for the microscopic difference between senior and junior...
...events were to proceed as follows at The; Hague: The happy pair drive out in the State Coach (presented to Queen Wilhelmina at the time of her marriage in 1901) and alight at the Town Hall with its onion-topped steeple, to have their civil marriage performed. Oranges hang decoratively from Hague trees in honor of the Royal House of Orange-Nassau and nips of gin are downed by the sturdy Dutch in the frosty air. The royal coach rolls on to the Great Church of Saint James, and the Rev. Dr. Welter, former court chaplain, unites Their Royal Highnesses...
...feet screaming, "you had better kill your mother and be done with it." Son Patrick took the bread knife and obliged her. He was the first man to be condemned to death in Buffalo in six years. It was the duty of the sheriff to hang him. The young sheriff went home to his mother Ann, widow of a Presbyterian parson, in Holland Patent; N. Y., to ask what he should do. She advised him to pay a deputy $10 to act as hangman. He replied that he would not ask another man to do a dirty job like that...
Eight years later the same young sheriff was elected Mayor of Buffalo, nine years later Governor of New York, twelve years later, on March 4, 1885, he, Stephen Grover Cleveland, became the first hang man President...