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  • n  a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution

  • In scenes reminiscent of the tumbril-and-guillotine days of the French Revolution, the Communists turned the spectacle of death into public carnivals, with music and dances.
  • Not in a tumbril but in a Black Maria, Henri Philippe Ptain, 89, hero of Verdun, Marshal of France and chief of the late Vichy Government, rode to one of history's great.
  • Between Us Girls (Universal) is chiefly notable because it provides the rattletrap tumbril on which John Barrymore's 21-year-old daughter Diana is supposed to ride to stardom.

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