Word: scaffolding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coast Guard station near Fort Lauderdale. Thither was escorted Alderman, full of repentance and new-found "religion." Greatest secrecy surrounded the execution. Newsmen were barred under threats of contempt of court. Guardsmen, pale in the pale dawn light, ringed the hangar as Alderman mounted the scaffold. A singing sea breeze through the shed swayed his body at the end of a rope as justice was done for all good U. S. people...
Called "Voice of the Revolution," Mirabeau, with his loud tongue and sense of drama, was an incendiary orator who said daring things at crucial moments. To Louis XVI. snubbing his assembly, Mirabeau grimly retorted: "It is thus that kings are led to the scaffold...
...where the daughter of the Spanish High Constable to the Netherlands is in love with the leader of the oppressed Flemings. The photography might be 20 years old and so might the sword fights, the kisses in jail, the pursuit on horseback, the Inquisition, the pardon delivered at the scaffold by the king's messenger. Only good shot: Raquel Meller crossing herself in bed when her dog, startled by a flash of lightning, begins to bark...
...from the college authorities for the unusual action of the clock in the past few days; but upon inquiry it was discovered that the unwieldy flight of a vagrant pigeon had disturbed the movement that has been continual for a decade or less. Workmen perched high upon the dangerous scaffold spent several hours in the effort to repair the damage caused by the misdirected ramblings of the winged wanderer...
...Mexico it is wise to carry a pistol. Most Mexicans do it. In Mexico City there is a man who stands, peaceably enough, on a scaffold and paints pictures of his countrymen on walls and ceilings. Sometimes even he carries a pistol, a very large pistol with a commensurate cartridge belt. But this pistol is not a weapon. It is an artist's symbol...