tumbril

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As a vehicle for the waxing dramatic talents of Ginger Rogers, The Primrose Path is something of a tumbril.

From Time Magazine Archive

After one opening that had the audience rolling in the aisles, the leading man found Kaufman crushed against a wall "looking a little like the late Marie Antoinette in the tumbril."

From Time Magazine Archive

First to hit the tumbril was Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, 40, the pudgy, sneering, widely resented husband of Nikita's daughter Rada.

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When the creak of the tumbril was heard again last spring in Europe, it was almost inevitable that a biography of Robespierre would not be far behind.

From Time Magazine Archive

"In no distant time," he says, "they will chase you from your thrones, even as your relatives had to evacuate France by tumbril, post-chaise or train."

From Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess by Fischer, Henry W. (Henry William)