Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Numbers Sanctify." Chaplin has remarked that Verdoux paraphrases Clausewitz' idea that the logical extension of diplomacy is war. Verdoux's version: "The logical extension of business is murder." War, he tells the court which condemns him, is merely a grandiose multiplication of the crime he is dying for. But wholesale murder is condoned by the state. "Numbers . . ." (of killed men), he tells the fat-mouthed journalist who interviews him in his death cell, "numbers sanctify." An earnest priest, his last offices rejected, murmurs solemnly, "May God have mercy on your soul." "Why not?" replies M. Verdoux. "After...
...summer day in 1935, in the little village of Gagliano, Fascist guards took the handcuffs off bullheaded Painter Carlo Levi's wrists and drove away. Levi's crime was anti-Fascist opinions. His sentence: three years' exile in southern Italy's barren, unhealthy province of Lucania...
Revolution based on the American ideal of 1776, including a single ground rent tax, conservation of land, and nationalization of natural wealth, is the only preventive for the triumph of Russia, she declared. "The crime of capitalism was that it created the proletariat," she continued, "and the crime of Russia is that she maintains it under a system of police capitalism...
Pravda ("Truth"), they learned, prints no crime or disaster stories (the editors think that type of news is unimportant) ; it has no bustling "city room," for the editors and most writers have offices and secretaries of their own; the average reporter's salary is about 1,500 to 2,000 rubles a month ($282 to $376). It takes a staff of 430 editorial workers to get out the four-page paper, but even so Pravda turns a profit for the Communist Party...
...coming every day for lunch a liverwurst salesman. He is a goodtime Irving, a fancy dandy, also floiting a bissel. The liverwurst salesman is to the other waitress, Supreme Feitelbaum, engaged. With ogling, also babytalk, I am stealing him away. For 20 years already he is mine husband Pierre. Crime does not pay!" Pierre, who now is never seen (or heard) in the Alley, is a luckless "schmo" who plays the ponies at "Epstein Downs" and "Hia-Levy." He is so unlucky that "if it is raining borsch outside, Pierre will be standing with a fork. He will also missing...