Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just before Frank's scheduled execution. Governor John Marshall Slaton commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. A mob threatened the Governor's home. Martial law was declared. Troops were called out to save Governor Slaton from being torn limb from limb by citizens who charged he had been bribed with Jewish gold from New York to spare Frank's life. That commutation ruined Slaton's political career...
...Iowa, Bannery Shay Jr., protected by netting over his head and long gloves, set out to shoo a swarm of bees from a tree. A limb of the tree broke, carried the swarm to the ground. The queen bee, followed by others, crept up Shay's trouser-leg. He yanked the top of his trousers away from his middle, stood stock-still. The bees saw daylight, crawled out, buzzed away without stinging Bannery Shay...
...been roving the hills of New Jersey and southern New York. Before dawn he would drive his truck up beside a pre-selected tree or fence, bear to it a small, cable-attached object, then retreat to wait, watch, listen. Once he put his '"trap" on the limb where a song sparrow came each dawn to serenade his nesting mate; once near a beer barrel which a whippoorwill had chosen for its nightly concert stage...
...Miss Dove intentionally lets slip Miss Davies' hand during a revolving ballet number. Miss Davies breaks a leg. After a farewell party at which she gets her mother intoxicated, she returns to the East Side. Montgomery finally appears with 1) four specialists who promise they can mend the broken limb and 2) a proposal of marriage. Through the picture flows bottle upon bottle of chilled champagne...
Near San Benito, Tex., a posse set bloodhounds on the trail of a band of thieves. When the bloodhounds bounded up, the thieves caught them, tied them together by their collars, hung them over a limb. The pursuing posse took down the sad-faced dogs, again sicked them on the trail. This time the thieves shot the bloodhounds...