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Thus far the headsmen employed have been "usually butchers by trade." They are not yet wearing the ceremonial full dress prescribed by Captain Goring who delights to set fashions and even designed his own uniform as German Air Minister. Thus far the butchers have scorned to wear masks. Assistants bind the condemned man, shave his neck and hold him down squarely against the block. A state's attorney reads the verdict of Death, cries. "Executioner do your duty!" Not bad fellows, several butchers have treated the condemned to hearty meals at their own expense the night before execution, supplying...
...schoolboys form a secret society for revenge. Here Director DeMille, more up to date in method than in ideology, stole a few ideas from Nerofilm's M. Whistling bars from "Yankee Doodle" as a code signal, the members of the secret society creep up on Garrett, gag and bind him with adhesive tape while he is having his shoes shined. A high-school girl (Judith Allen) entertains his bodyguard while the boys take Garrett to a deserted factory, try him in a kangaroo court, exact his confession to both murders by dunking him in a rat-infested well...
Subject to ratification by the eight governments concerned, the agreement would bind "India, China and Spain as holders of large stocks of silver and . . . Australia, Canada, the United States, Mexico and Peru as the principal producers of silver" not to dump the white metal on the world market for the next four years. Sales of surplus silver by the holding nations would be reduced to about the same extent that the producers agree to withhold silver from the world market by purchasing it for their treasury reserves of coin or bullion...
...Japanese dead, after two years of undeclared war from Manchuria down through Jehol Province into an arc south of the Great Wall, last fortnight's truce had by last week actually brought to North China what Premier Wang Ching-wei called a "breathing spell." To bind the verbal agreement, Chinese Lieut. General Hsiung Ping last week went to Tangku on the seacoast. As he stepped off his swank special train, he saw two Japanese destroyers tied at the docks. Their guns were trained on Tangku, the gun turrets manned. A Chinese armored train pulled in, its guns trained...
...innovation, trembling between abortion and full bloom, is in line with House ties, House waistcoats, and even, in a quiet way, with House bells; like all these steps, it is a link in the long chain destined to bind the House tradition. Antedated by the Kirkland Alumni Bulletin, it lacks the mild appeal of novelty; but further than this, like all such publications, it has a vague taint, reminiscent of boy's club circulars, and the bulletins of Ladies Aid Societies, which is likely to condemn it in the eyes of many...