Word: trapping
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...puts down the sardonic comments on tall tales: "Go on, I'm listening." . . . "Aw shut up, close your trap, button your tongue, you talk too much." He lists the common exaggerations that are so common their mockery is seldom heard...
Moody disconsolate, unnerved at Gardner's courtship, Selma thought of marriage as a trap set particularly for her, was sometimes swept off her feet by Gardner s ardor and exasperated by his arrogance At last he told her: "You mistake a morbid imagination ... for intellect...
...Bethea, who raped and strangled a 70-year-old white woman, was Kentucky's only female sheriff, plump, matronly Mrs. Florence Thompson. When her husband died four months ago. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler passed his job on to her. It thus became her duty to spring the trap under Bethea. A devout Roman Catholic, Sheriff Thompson consulted her priest, learned from him that nothing in canon law prohibited her from sending the blackamoor to his legal death. Protestant churchmen concurred. Nevertheless, soft-hearted Sheriff Thompson sighed: "I suppose I will spend the rest of my life forgetting...
...were festooned with spectators. By 4:30 a. m. the crowd crushed through the wire fence around the scaffold. Police had a hard time getting Phil Hanna from Illinois, whose knowledge of knots has made him a distinguished necessity at 80 hangings, to the gallows. Businesslike, he tested the trap three times, found it good...
...like to die with my shoes on." he said, sitting down on the bottom step and taking them off. Up the 13 steps to the platform he walked. Then for the first time the crowd learned that Sheriff Thompson could not nerve herself to her job. Fingering the trap lever instead was Arthur ("Daredevil Dick") Hasch, a pensioned Louisville policeman, deputized by Sheriff Thompson. The Sheriff miserably sat in her automobile 50 yd. away. Assistant Hangman Hanna adjusted the noose. Unlike Rapist De Boe, who was permitted to quarrel for an hour with his victim, Negro Bethea had nothing...