hangman
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When Merv Griffin created “Wheel of Fortune” in 1975 as television’s answer to hangman, it spent its early years on ratings life support.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
Even the widely despised Chun escaped the hangman.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
A notebook and other items belonging to Britain's most famous hangman has sold at auction for £20,000.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2019
The show that brands itself as “America’s game,” and perhaps that is fitting because, in essence, it is an awkward marriage of hangman and roulette.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2019
The hangman was doing a brisk trade in murderer’s wash water, but Beetle was at last able to secure a bottle.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
“We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
But the news that the services of hangmen are no longer needed attracts fresh faces to the pub, including a mod young stranger from London with a gift for vexation.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
Even though they are rarely called on to carry out an execution, hangmen are paid a monthly stipend by local state governments of about 3,000 rupees or £30.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2014
Although there have been no hangings since 1976 two hangmen were recently recruited but were later reported to have been sacked after absconding.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2013
In Bombay they serve as night watchmen, town-criers, drummers, trumpeters and hangmen.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
