Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dante has been accused of unnecessary harshness in the execution of certain of the punishments. But he is merely trying to express his opinion that some sinners are so base that they should suffer the fullness of their punishments. In the instance of the punishment of the lovers, Francesca di...
If these organizations could raise a fund large enough to be a permanent endowment, they would be doing a great service. We question whether the execution of such a scheme is now within their power. If, however, these organizations would appropriate a given sum from their treasuries to reduce the...
Last night many members of the Dramatic Club accepted the invitation of the Shubert Theatre to Mr. Knoblauch's play. "The Faun" is an unusual piece of work--unusually original in conception and unusually successful in execution. The comedy is genuinely amusing and the "teaching" of the play sanely convincing...
The Fogg Museum has also received, as an indefinite loan, a small pinnacle representing St. Agnes, attributed to Ambrogio Lorenzetti. The little picture has much of the charm of the early Sienese School, though its some what rough execution does not compare favorably with the best work of Lorenzetti. It...
Tolerance leads one naturally to Mr. Mariett's story of undergraduate life which bears that virtue for its title--a happy, humorous, altogether real story of a grind and the way he got over it--the simplest, truest story of college life in the reviewer's memory. The other stories...