Word: scaffolding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slim, shapely, 26. That was the day she killed her friends. Many times in the next 15 months, passionate Mrs. Judd earned in full her newspaper nickname "The Blonde Tigress." She dropped her hysteria, her fits of blank staring, only when an impressionable jury had saved her from a scaffold-drop by judging her insane...
Anna is in a cot beside her, humbly dying of tuberculosis. Dr. Ditten performed the operation that saved Emmy's life for the scaffold-she had heard him ask permission to operate, just to keep his hand in. Emmy does not know that when the doctor was a boy he had treasured a photograph of her. When he tells her this, in his cold way, she has a moment of wild hope that he may save her, soon feels like a romantic fool as he goes on to give her a political lecture...
Last winter, when the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs were in the lath-&-scaffold stage, New Yorkers and San Franciscans were already discussing tall plans for the music Fairgoers were to hear. Tallest planning was in Manhattan, where pudgy, music-loving Mayor LaGuardia had inaugurated a campaign to raise $1,200,000 to finance a World's Fair music festival. With this money, portly Olin Downes, New York Times music critic and Fair music director, proposed to buy Manhattan a festival she would never forget. Two months later news leaked out that the campaign...
...Chicago, Joseph Algori hoisted himself up 30 feet in a painter's scaffold to a newly painted sign of a pretty girl, proceeded to paint on her face a full Vandyck beard. On his return to earth, police arrested him on charges of malicious mischief, disorderly conduct, intoxication...
...just to provide jobs for a crew of scaffold-sitters, although the weekly washing will continue until the building's completion...