Word: excelsior
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...murder of gentle Senator Mauro Angulo Hernandez put many a Mexican in an eye-for-an-eye mood. To curb such barbarism, cried Supreme Court Justice Luis G. Corona, the death penalty for murder, outlawed in the federal district since 1929, ought to be reestablished. Said the conservative Excelsior. "Society is handcuffed before the criminal, and the prestige of the country demands stronger methods. The [Porfirio] Díaz dictum-catch in the act, kill on the spot-unquestionably yielded better results. ... It is urgently necessary to teach a lesson to potential murderers by means of heavy punishment." Abreast...
...streets waiting to get in. Thirty minutes after the doors opened, they were closed again, to save those inside from being trampled in the rush. The critics' reaction to the show was unanimous-a prolonged huzza-hosannah. "Only those bound up in iron prejudices," said the newspaper Excelsior, "could fail to appreciate the work of this genius...
...hard-driving Kenneth Spencer, whose Spencer Chemical Co. has leased the Government's $20 million Jayhawk Ordnance Works (TIME, June 17, 1946), turned to rain making as a possible stimulant for his dry-ice sales. Spencer hired a crop-service plane, succeeded in bringing showers to Mission, Kans., Excelsior Springs, Mo. This week five farmers from Burlington, Iowa hired the same plane to make rain over their arid 1,500 acres; it made rain all right-over a golf course, leaving their farms still...
...Barber of Seville (Tespi; Excelsior), made in Italy, is a full-length movie opera. It is a pretty good comedy-dressed up in Rossini's very good music-about a shrewd fixer who helps a love-struck count in his courtship of a girl whose guardian wants her for himself. The course of true love involves a full-throated serenade, a sneaked love letter, a couple of disguises, some comic policemen, and denouements in which the entire company tears around singing its head off. The Italian lyrics are occasionally paraphrased in English captions, and before each act, Deems Taylor...
...Said Excelsior: "The captain pulled a pistol and shot into the floor at the feet of the major, who said, 'That's not the way to shoot, but like this,' and (at elbow-bending range) commenced to empty his pistol against the captain, who, at the same time, pulled the trigger of his .45. A few seconds were sufficient for the two officers to fall dead...