Word: scaffolding
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...intense vividness are many. Not only is there a brutally distinct picture of the guillotine, but a first-hand description of being guillotined. At this point the author's imagination reaches its greatest height. The spirit aloofly observes the physical phenomena of the body just before it climbs the scaffold. It watches the blade descend, sees the twitching limbs left on the board and the staring eyes of the head in the bloody basket. Then as a vitreous transparent body, seeing and hearing, but not feeling, he travels the world in a search for the mating humans...
Citizens of a Missouri town called Braggadocio hammered and sawed industriously in their town square. Idlers eyed the workmen judiciously and offered suggestions. The workmen were building a scaffold...
...Braggadocians had taken Mr. Sherod from jail and brought him home. Now the scaffold was finished. Now they tied Mr. Sherod's hands and suspended him thereby from the scaffold. Now the Braggadocian guns were loaded, Braggadocian epithets flew, Braggadocian powder burned. Mr. Sherod died by writhes and jerks after a dozen bullets had passed through his dangling body. The Braggadocians smiled grimly at one another and went home...
...program follows: Military March No. 2 Schubert-Casella Suite "From Holberg's Time" Grieg Intermezxo from "Goyescas" Granados "Sadko," Tone Poem Rimsky-Korsakoff "Ball Scene" and "March to the Scaffold from the Fantastic Symphony Berlioz The Swan of Tuonela Sibelius "Pacific 231," Orchestral Movement Honegger Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn Overture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky
...lounged before the auctioneer's rostrum, watching some gentlemen talk with their fingers. They talked in an ancient language, for they were dealer's agents, and their nodding heads, their twitching forefingers, indicated bids of a thousand, of ten thousand pounds. When a little picture on the scaffold (George Romney's portrait of Mrs. Davenport, seated, 30 by 25 inches) was knocked down to Sir Joseph Duveen's man for approximately $260,000, the elegant watchers burst into applause. Romney's Lady Hamilton brought $65,000. And Sir Joshua Reynold's Cimon and Iphigenia...