Word: british
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peshawar, British India, anyone possessed of the sum of 6¢ could obtain a graphic idea of what King Nadir meant by "severe punishment." Photographs were on view, at 12 annas a peek, showing the execution of Bacha Sakao, the Water Boy Bandit King (TIME, Nov. 11). Contrary to official reports, cabled accounts, Bacha Sakao was not "humanely shot." With ankles loaded with heavy chains, he and his five companions had ropes knotted about their necks, were hauled into the air, to strangle slowly. No coward, Bandit Bacha scoffed and jeered at his executioners while breath...
...Feminist Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst by an anonymous male; at London. Age: 2. Having recently received a picture of Baby Pankhurst, George Bernard Shaw wrote Miss Pankhurst: ''The boy looks a jolly little animal and is still, I hope, trailing clouds of glory." Birthday. Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, British politician, Conservative Party leader, author (The World Crisis); at London. Age: 55. Died. Lucy Abercrombie, 29, daughter of Col. David T. Abercrombie (David T. Abercrombie Co., camp outfitters, Manhattan); at Ossining, N. Y.; of burns. She was working in her laboratory with a leakproof solution of gasoline and paraffin when...
...famed Walnut Hall Breeding Farm of Lexington, Ky., for $96,350. Steel. To save the skilled clubmakers of Scotland from competing with the cheap, excellent products of U. S. factories, the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews has long refused to let anyone use steel-shafted clubs in British golf tournaments. Last week the Royal & Ancient Club met, announced that steel shafts would be all right. Their reason: scarcity of good hickory...
...Would prohibition be a good thing, economically and morally, for the country if it were well enforced? That, after all, is the real question. Why not consider it in an honest and scientific spirit? A good beginning may be made by reading Sir Josiah Stamp's address before the British Society for the Study of Inebriety on October...
Occupying a prominent position on the "Index" is the British philosopher's. "What I Believe." That the appearance of Mr. Russell at Symphony Hall yesterday occasioned no great turmoil among the officially righteous brings the unpredictable actions of the censors into sharper relief. The probable contents of a lecture on the faith of an unbeliever should be sufficiently apparent. But no action was taken to restrain the famous philosopher from corrupting Boston's intelligentsia...