Word: detachedness
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In the midst of animated partisan argument on Prohibition, in and out of Congress, President Lowell's article in the current Atlantic Monthly strikes a clear and thoughtful note. Occupying a key position in American intellectual life, a university president has opportunities to observe what is really going on among...
Female to Guillotine. Not for 41 years has the head of a woman been legally detached in France. Though murderesses have abounded, one and all have successfully pleaded: 1) Faithlessness of the murdered man; 2) Insanity; or 3) Beauty. But last week there was sentenced to the guillotine in Paris...
With Satanic cunning Junka Kures had strangled a little girl, Carmen Bruniaux, and then so arranged her that the child should appear the victim of a male attack. Righteously and furiously incensed, a male jury and judge condemned Satanic Junka Kures to have her head detached.
Personally, while I envy men who have the opportunity to write editorials, either under dateline or in their home paper, I have never felt that I had the right to do so. I consider my function as a press correspondent to be neutral and detached and simply to report developments...
Last week a smart launch detached itself and cut shoreward from the side of the S. S. President McKinley as she steamed into Manila Bay. From the launch, which seemed the liner's emissary, stepped Col. Henry Lewis Stimson, emissary of the parent U. S. to the Philippines.