gallows
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Schrader, who turns 80 in July, spoke about the coming upheaval with a mixture of fascination, resignation and dry gallows humor.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that Brown would “make the gallows as glorious as the cross.”
From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026
As Ralph Waldo Emerson saw it, Brown’s death on the scaffold turned him into a “new Saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
Their side had not long come from behind to go 2-1 up against Newcastle United when gallows humour swept across the London Stadium.
From BBC • Nov. 2, 2025
At the hanging of his friend, convicted killer Tom Horn, he made national headlines by stepping up to the gallows and belting out “Life’s Railway to Heaven.”
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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