Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...precautionary measures. The most remarkable incident in The Stars Look Down, and a powerful piece of writing in its own right, is Dr. Cronin's account of the flooding of the mine, the death of Father Fenwick and one of his sons who are trapped in a dry shaft between miles of water and rock. In a party that included a 15-year-old boy, a religious fanatic called Jesus Wept, a football player and drunkard, the men waited for death, the fanatic shouting verses from Revelations and the football player keeping track of the days so he would know...
...mushroomed up from the dumbwaiter shaft of his sleeping house in Boston's Back Bay where lay his crippled 70-year-old mother, four women servants and his four children, and suddenly the core of the house was a torrent of fire. Daughter Alice and her grandmother were roasted in their beds. Two maids were scorched off fourth floor window sills to which they clung, fell to their death. Mary, 13, with the fire on her back, jumped out a second story window and mortally hurt herself. Ellen Elaine, 6, jumped and survived with bad burns. Plucky little John...
...Tonight," he cried, "I invited the laborer and the farmer, the small business man and the small merchant, the disorganized of every class, each to grasp the spear shaft of union, the shaft of solidarity, and with perfectly timed thrusts, with amalgamated strength, to push that spear point through the breastplate of our common ills into the very heart of the concentration of wealth...
...that follows sends Joe Radek to the hospital. Warned by his Anna, who comes back to him just in time, that the miners are about to go back to work on unfavorable terms, Joe goes down into the mine with a load of explosives. From the bottom of the shaft he telephones up that unless the miners' demands are met, he will destroy the mine. The company's officials take him at his word. When Black Fury opened in Manhattan last week, it was advertised by its producers and hailed by critics as "courageous." This indicated...
Twenty-four hours later, at Alapayevsk, six more captive Romanovs and two of their faithful followers met an even harder death. Grand Dukes Sergius, Ivan, Constantine and Igor, Grand Duchess Elisabeth, Prince Vladimir Paley, Secretary Romez, Nun Barbara Yakovleva were taken to an abandoned mine and thrown down a shaft. According to Investigator Sokolov, all were still alive after the fall except Sergius. The hand-grenades that were thrown down after them killed Romez; the rest died more lingeringly...