Word: leg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fresh one over his shoulders. As they led him to the death chamber a voice said, "If I could get hold of that towel around your neck, buddy, I'd save the executioner a job on you." Robert Elliott received the Negro, adjusted electrodes in the slit trouser leg, saw the straps buckled, turned on the current. The Negro twitched furiously for a moment, then sat quite still. Two more Negroes, condemned with the first for the murder of a watchman during a robbery, and betrayed by him to the police, followed. His day's work done, Robert...
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...gasoline station in Trenton, N. J., one Edward Frommel, a man with a hickory leg, sat smoking. It was late at night. In a cigar box over Mr. Frommel's head lay a wad of dirty bills, a week's gas receipts. He was thinking of the money and hoping that his partner would come back soon, so that they could take it home to- gether. There are bandits in Trenton. . . . Suddenly, on the door of the gas station, boomed a loud knock. Mr. Frommel jumped up. As he opened the door he saw two Trenton bandits with...
...kings. Herein, a millionaire cowherd of Arizona rambles all over Europe on the indefinite trail of Helen Bond, a member no doubt of the Junior League. He appears in expensive cafés, twirling his native lasso, topped with a wide-brimmed sombrero, upholstered in furry, wild-West leg-clothes, a sight for any romantic heifer. Helen's aunt snubs him in her most patrician manner until a group of nobles inform him that he is, in reality, the long-lost heir to the throne of Eldorado. Much against his democratic inclinations, he kings it for a while over...
...chosen for his volume, this being the first, and probably the best, of the thirty-odd selections that he offers. And Martha is an extraordinary girl. She is Mr. Sullivan's stenographer, with a penchant for turning somersaults and handsprings in the office, taking dictation while dangling by one leg from a chandelier, and using her employer's purple suspenders for exercisers, with inkwells tied to the ends for weighs. You can imagine what a hard time poor Mr. Sullivan has with her. But if you can't, he tells you. As, for example, getting her to take dictation, which...