Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast, entered strong protest against "the employment of police-spies to ferret into the affairs of the accused"; and charged that political factors had motivated the actions of the prosecution. Said Mr. Justice Swift, in his charge to the jury: "I would have you recall that if 9, crime is committed in secret, secret methods may have to be adopted in order to find it out. . . . Whether the defendants are being prosecuted by a rival political party or not is of no significance. ... If guilty, they are guilty, whether the prosecuting party be Conservative, Labor, Liberal or Socialist...
...this play about players, we see the point of view of the dramatist who feels that "every human being is an actor in his daily life", that a "will to the theatre", a "will to play" is behind everything: religion, revolution, crime. For Evreinov the theatrical and the real are irrevocably intertwined: "the actor is the spectator and the spectator actor". If in the hectic rehearsals now going on in Brattle Hall, it seems at times uncertain whether Mr. Massey is trying to play the piece as realism or as fantasy, that very ambiguity is perhaps in keeping with...
...Occident today must better exemplify to the Orient the Christianity it professes. It must deal justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God; it must produce a cleaner journalism, less concerned with details of crime and more with the essence of the Christ-spirit so evident in our philanthropies and in the growth of our service and social conscience in community, state and Nation...
...told that 65% of the crime of today is committed by youth between the ages of 16 and 21. Our jails and schools of correction are rapidly filling with these youthful criminals...
...Madjariow, the mayor of the city, by one Tomoff. For a wonder the two men chanced to be of the same political party and as a result the Bulgarian press was unable to adhere to its usual policy of attaching an allegedly "deep political significance" to every notable crime...