Word: casement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scene: The oldfashioned, high ceilinged sittingroom of a private suite in the musty and second class Princess Hotel. Through the casement windows one looks out on the Place de L'Etoile; and a portion of the Arc de Triomphe is visible. There is a notice asking guests to put out the light when leaving the room, and another stating that the laundress of the hotel is the only one admitted. The suite is that of John Pierpont Morgan. (A secretary permits reporters to enter the hall, and Mr. Morgan emerges from his bedroom. The correspondents are excited, abashed and somewhat...
Suddenly came a sound at the casement window. It was pushed open, and a seven-year-old boy climbed onto the sill. He was supported by a weary, drawn-faced woman, Mme. Zizi Lambrino, one-time morganatic wife of Prince Carol. The towheaded boy was their son, Mircea...
...defense summed up: "I do not hesitate to refer to my client as one of the greatest criminologists in England. . . . It is well known that he was chiefly instrumental in securing the conviction of Sir Roger Casement (TIME, Dec. 28). . . . He is a son of the late Archbishop of York. . . . It is inconceivable that a man in Sir Basil's position and with his repuation and knowledge of the world could possibly find himself seated before a court on such a charge...
...handsome green uniforms with harps worked in embroidery on the collar. Now the Germans, having partly lost faith in him, were insisting that he prove his own loyalty to them by landing in Ireland and directing a revolt, to be supported by smuggled German arms. To Sir Roger Casement, strange, brilliant, unbalanced adventurer, it seemed that his chances, even of life, were slim enough. Jauntily he called back toward the U-719, "I need nothing, Herr Kapitan, except my shroud...
...seized him. For months Mr. Basil Thomson, Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, had been waiting for Sir Roger to appear. During the course of the trial before Lord Chief Justice Reading,* Mr. Thomson was not only instrumental in securing the conviction and subsequent execution of Sir Roger Casement, but rose to such prominence himself that he was knighted, and then made Director of Intelligence of the British secret service. Since that day he has been a symbol to Britons of the maintenance of law and order at any cost. Ecclesiastics have pointed with pride to the fact that...