Word: sho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough to accommodate a scaffold, De Boe's execution took place outside in the jail yard. The surrounding fence was so low that the gallows was in plain view of the crowd. De Boe smiled and nodded to friends and neighbors, remarked: "This fresh air sho' do feel good." The sheriff then gave him 30 minutes in which to speak his last words...
Like all Chinese "palaces," it was a maze of sprawling, verandahed, one-story buildings built around open courtyards and roofed with tile of imperial yellow. The entrance was two great sheets of plate glass blazing in red with the character "Sho" (Longevity). The floors were marble, the movable partitions elaborately carved open woodwork, broken with old paintings on silk, panels and mirrors. Known as Pi-shu-shan-chwang (mountain lodge for avoiding the heat), it was famed for The Garden of Ten Thousand Trees and a waterfall that gave the illusion of flowing over jade and breaking into a spray...
...some by drownin' and some by burnin'. Den that night, I found a note under my door. It said, 'Green, when we git back here we don't want to find you here,' and, Cap'n, I'm telling you dey sho' didn' find...
...Imperial Household. The bomb was strangely ineffective. One horse was scratched by a fragment, the carriage was uninjured. Emperor Hirohito popped his head out of his carriage in time to see little Japanese policemen swarming angrily over the bomb thrower, a tall angular Korean named Li Ho-sho...
Decorated. Edward Nash Hurley, 65, Chicago financier, Commander of the Legion of'Honor, order of Ta Sho Cha Ho (China), Grand Officer Crown of Italy, by the Vatican; with the order of Knight...