Word: died
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respectfully report that with your permission I am about to die...
When he read this telegram, Marshal Pilsudski, Dictator, Premier, War Minister and national hero, sprang up, touched, flattered, to telephone the aged General Buchopicki full permission to die with the consent of his old commander. Telephone operators plugged fast at the sound of Marshal Pilsudski's imperative roar, the call went through instantly, a nurse answered. Said she:"General Buchopicki is dead...
...convinced to be right that you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other time, I would live again to do what I have done already. I have finished ; thank you." Forthwith, amid interruptions, Judge Thayer sentenced Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti to die by "the passage of a current of electricity" through their bodies during the week of July 10, 1927. The court adjourned...
...girl. The grandfather, symbol of the stern paternalism that runs with and parallel to the landowner's devotion to his soil, forces the girl to marry the less favored. The frustrated beloved goes to Paris, becomes a potent sculptor. He returns to fight the jealous brother, to die in the struggle. The acting is sincere though violent...
Sacco and Vanzetti are sentenced to die. The judicical process has finished its work. The jury has spoken; the judge has spoken; the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth has spoken. In the course of the law of Massachusetts, there is nothing more to be done...