Word: scaffold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believed, would in those days have failed to save even a beautiful defendant. The piling up of circumstantial evidence brings the lovers to trial. After a false confession which saves her weak-kneed lover's neck, Morganna pays the Devil his wages and goes bravely to the scaffold...
...year-old Arab hostility to the Jews making the predominantly Arabian Palestine their "homeland." For firing on an Arab bus last spring, a young Revisionist was hanged last month at Acre, calling out the name of Revisionist Leader Jabotinsky, and singing the party song as he mounted the scaffold...
...wooden scaffold, a bag of sand, a black mask and a short length of rope with a running noose might have been good enough for our grandfathers. But a hanging is no longer the fashionable thing it was once; a few U. S. States- Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, North Carolina and California- even kill their murderers with gas instead of electricity. Five of the country's lethal chambers have been made by the Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, which has a ghastly set of patents. Last week the fifth was sent off to San Quentin prison...
Inferior to Strindberg's The Father and Lady Julia, The Bridal Crown needs miraculously controlled acting to stay within bounds. Except for Aurora Bonney, the cast snubbed all current theories of acting, kept declaiming as from the scaffold, made a stage whisper sound like a call to arms...
...hours the body dangled from the scaffold as Beirut natives halted their early morning tasks to gaze on the grisly scene. Women milled about, bargaining with guards for a piece of the hanging rope, chattering that it was the best protection against barrenness...