Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes before midnight. Straps of the electric chair in the Massachusetts state prison had been oiled, adjusted, inspected by the executioner. Machine guns had been placed 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...
Reputedly Senator Bingham, six feet tall and harsh of voice, told the small and slim but ruthless Chang Tso-lin that if he ordered the execution of Mme. Borodin public opinion in the U. S. would consider the War Lord a mere barbarian.
All modern painting had its inception in Italy in that period usually referred to by Anglican historians as the Renaissance but more aptly designated (from the painter's point of view) by the Italians as quartocento and quintocento. More aptly, because painting of the 14th and 15th Centuries did...
Dictator Stalin went on to say that this documentary evidence supplied justification for the recent execution of some 20 "White Russians" in Moscow (TIME, June 20). He concluded: The White Russians who have been shot were about to lead a rebellion that would have cost millions of lives."
The wholesale turnover in the department of the Dean of Harvard College starting with the resignation of Dean Greenough and the appointment of Dean Hanford of the Summer School, is in no way mysterious nor does it presage any disruption of falling off in the administration of the College. It...