Word: headsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purely hypothetical race of men with an average weight of 98 pounds and an average height of 5 ft. ½ in. A normal man cannot stand in one without getting his hat knocked off, or assuming a stooped posture, not unlike that of an Oriental criminal awaiting the headsman...
...most puissant law firms, veteran of innumerable international congresses, No. 1 Presbyterian layman, and chairman of the Commission for a Just & Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches. ¶Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 46, able Illinois lawyer, grandson of Democratic Vice President Adlai ("The Headsman") Stevenson (who distinguished himself by discreetly purging some 40,000 Republican postmasters when Grover Cleveland became President). Young Stevenson entered public service as Assistant General-Counsel to the Federal Alcoholic Control Administration, subsequently became assistant to Secretaries Knox, Hull, Stettinius...
Visitors to the 870-year-old Tower of London used to be fascinated by three pairs of ravens that strutted around Tower Green, where so many heads have rolled. A legend, probably the work of one of the Tower guides, has it that the ravens fed off the headsman's victims. More probably they were first attracted by the garbage dumped out of Tower windows until sanitation set in during the 19th Century. When the Tower was opened as a show place, the ravens' wings were clipped, and they also became an exhibit...
Hollywood Headsman...