Word: scaffolding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Overture to "The King of Ys"--Lalo Air TristeLangendoen English Horn Solo: Louis Speyer Overture to "Semiramide" Rossini Two Movements from the "Fantastic Symphony" Berlioz a. A Ball. Waltz., Allegro non troppo b. March to the Scaffold. Allegretto non troppo Symphonie Poem, "Omphale's Spinning Wheel" Saint-Saens Ballet Suite, "La Glara" Casella trance of the Peasants. Brindisi. General Dance, Finale Tenor Solo: Rulon Y. Robison Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms Waltz from "Coppelia" Delibes Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt
...fees, and bring home the dead man's things, now a decent coat, now a stout pair of boots. Tortured by this necessity, Johnny broods over his ropes and ring, croons the ugly details to a fascinated small son, demonstrating with a grotesque rag doll on a miniature scaffold. In a drunken brawl at the inn Johnny champions a slattern, more unfortunate even than himself, befriends her, loves her, kills her jealous brute of a husband. She is convicted of the murder, and Johnny hangs her, dooming himself to tragedy...
...intense vividness are many. Not only is there a brutally distinct picture of the guillotine, but a first-hand description of being guillotined. At this point the author's imagination reaches its greatest height. The spirit aloofly observes the physical phenomena of the body just before it climbs the scaffold. It watches the blade descend, sees the twitching limbs left on the board and the staring eyes of the head in the bloody basket. Then as a vitreous transparent body, seeing and hearing, but not feeling, he travels the world in a search for the mating humans...
Citizens of a Missouri town called Braggadocio hammered and sawed industriously in their town square. Idlers eyed the workmen judiciously and offered suggestions. The workmen were building a scaffold...
...Braggadocians had taken Mr. Sherod from jail and brought him home. Now the scaffold was finished. Now they tied Mr. Sherod's hands and suspended him thereby from the scaffold. Now the Braggadocian guns were loaded, Braggadocian epithets flew, Braggadocian powder burned. Mr. Sherod died by writhes and jerks after a dozen bullets had passed through his dangling body. The Braggadocians smiled grimly at one another and went home...