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...Chicago, Joseph Algori hoisted himself up 30 feet in a painter's scaffold to a newly painted sign of a pretty girl, proceeded to paint on her face a full Vandyck beard. On his return to earth, police arrested him on charges of malicious mischief, disorderly conduct, intoxication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Amnesia | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...just to provide jobs for a crew of scaffold-sitters, although the weekly washing will continue until the building's completion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW LITTAUER SCHOOL GETS FACE SCRUBBED REGULARLY | 10/5/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Colonial Adulteress | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Two to One | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Death in an Octagon | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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