Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Setting something of a record for legislation in France, the French Cabinet one day last week decreed 80 new laws ranging from a 402-article "Code of the French Family" to a prescription of the death penalty for ten forms of espionage...
...Made punishable by death last week were such acts as: 1) publication of military information not made public by the Government; 2) destruction of material involved in national defense; 3) any action tending to "shake the faith" of the armed forces; 4) revelation of measures taken to arrest spies. Such offenses heretofore have usually been punished in times of peace by fines and short jail sentences...
...headed Patrick ("Liberty or Death") Henry was Virginia's original ''unreconstructed rebel," a Scottish King-hater who swung a verbal sledge on the propertied classes at every opportunity. He came home from the Revolution and attacked the Constitution as.destructive of States' rights. He turned down a Senatorship, a post as Secretary of State under George Washington, those of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and of Minister to France under John Adams. Propertied himself, Henry retired to his 2,920 acres of rolling Virginia grassland in 1795, a bitter, disappointed man, angry with his Government...
Patron saint of those condemned to death is St. Dismas, the "Good Thief," who was crucified alongside Jesus and asked the Lord to remember him in Heaven. In the U. S., Dismas was a much-neglected saint until the late Dempster MacMurphy, business manager of the Chicago Daily News, took him up, wrote an annual piece about him (TIME, March 6). Last Sunday Most Rev. Francis J. Monaghan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ogdensburg, N. Y., laid the cornerstone of the first U. S. church dedicated to Dismas. Its location: inside the north gate of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y. Prisoners...
...best," Sylvia's hard shell cracked only once-when her son's plane was shot down in the War. Old age found her blunt-speaking, crotchety as ever, her only weakness dreaming of foreign ports and cities she had known as a girl. Death, when at long last it came, found her still unreconciled with life...