Word: oaken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machine itself is a splendid old specimen: a strong, high-backed, Spanish oaken chair equipped with an iron collar and a plunger just beneath. A powerful lever at the back of the chair tightens the collar, strangles the condemned, at the same time forcing the plunger into the back of his neck, dislocating the spine. It was this ingenious antique which Minister of Executions Francisco de Pineda prepared to operate last week with his accustomed deftness, but in very special circumstances...
...taster." But testing was his office; tasting may have been his recreation. The ale tester was supposed to array himself in leathern breeches and proceed to examine the village supply of home brew as produced. This he did by pouring a small quantity of the precious fluid upon an oaken stool, and seating himself there on-or therein. After contemplating the surrounding scenery for a fixed period he would attempt to rise. If the oaken seat adhered to the leathern seat of his breeches the ale was condemned as unfit for consumption-there was too much sugar in it. These...
...oaken door of the Franciscan monastery at Gorheim, in the principality of Hohenzollern, faltered one morning a timid knock. The monk who answered found a cringing wretch there, broken with years of suffering: He identified himself as a onetime Colonel of the Kaiser's armies, personal friend of the Crown Prince, who had led his regiment gallantly to France. But a sense of guilt for his part in war obsessed him, and now he sought to make penitential amends, following the example of the gentle St. Francis of Assisi...
...concert on Sunday at 3.30 o'clock at the Repertory Theatre, Boston. The program, featuring Christmas music, follows: Christmas Music 1. Good News from Heaven Bach 2. Two Carols Warlock 3. A Carowle for Christmas Day Byrd Two Madrigals and Two Rounds 1. The Nightingale From Pamelia 1609 2. Oaken Leaves From Pamelia 1609 3. Weep oh mine eyes Weelkes 4. Come Sirrah Jack Ho Wilbye Hecula's Lament Bolst Three Choruses from Secular Cantatas Bach Conductor G. Wallace Woodworth...
...home, puts his foot on the rail, demands a double-chocolate-marshmallow-pecan sundae and a chicken-liver sandwich. Before supper he reads the fortnightly crime ofthe "crime of the century" in his favorite newspaper.* That the night, dressed in heroic robes, he enters the oaken door of a temple and becomes Sir Knight Errant of the Mystic Order of Granada. Sunday, on the golf links, he tells his companions: "I got a birdie here last week," instead of the oldtime "I shot a buffalo here." After his labors, he dreams over an advertisement: "To live at American Venice...