Word: trouserings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...along the prison walls to prevent violence. Radio station WSOM in Manhattan was hooked up ready for the broadcasting of the execution by the Eugene V. Debs Memorial Radio Fund. In adjoining death cells Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Celestino Madeiros? were waiting for a man to slit their trouser legs, make them ready for metal strips through which would pass a current of electricity...
Minutes passed. Dessert was passing in under the white mustache. Then suddenly the doorman of the Savoy snapped to attention as Mr. Lloyd George's coat passed over the threshold, a hat jammed down over the collar, two shabby trouser legs oscillating beneath...
...hallway of a frowsy house. Telling about it later, I said: 'They almost strangled me, but I kept my wits. I observed their faces carefully. One of them threatened to kill me. "For God's sake don't," I cried. "My money is in my left trouser pocket." They wrenched $25 out of my pocket and fled to the roof of the house. I found a policeman, was able to identify one Charles Logan when he was captured. Said I: "I was lucky." Charles Logan had an ugly knife.'" Edward of Wales: "In London smart young...
...ever appeared in the Tombs court on a single complaint. What could the judge do with them? All were sobered: They would crowd the jail. The workhouse would take them only if they were to stay 10 days. The judge had lights arranged and examined 133 rough necks, 266 trouser pockets. Those with dirty necks and no money for a bath, he sent to the workhouse. Others he freed. Historians recalled that not 100 years ago there were laws against owning bathtubs but no laws against taking a drink...
...fresh one over his shoulders. As they led him to the death chamber a voice said, "If I could get hold of that towel around your neck, buddy, I'd save the executioner a job on you." Robert Elliott received the Negro, adjusted electrodes in the slit trouser leg, saw the straps buckled, turned on the current. The Negro twitched furiously for a moment, then sat quite still. Two more Negroes, condemned with the first for the murder of a watchman during a robbery, and betrayed by him to the police, followed. His day's work done, Robert...