Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary heard that Bela Kun was under lock & key in Vienna, he formally demanded his extradition into Hungary to face charges of having ordered the execution of 144 Hungarians during the 143 days of "Red Terror." Meanwhile, at Vienna, Russian Soviet Agents were...
The founders of the Student Council probably intended that it should primarily be an organ of student government. But the days of student government, at Harvard certainly, are past. Students are too disorganized, too interested in their individual pursuits, intellectual or otherwise, to need or support any machinery of undergraduate...
Therefore Polish connoisseurs of execution regretted the abrupt dismissal of Hangman Maciejewski last week. They set up his reputation for conscientious professional conduct against the announcement of the Ministry of Justice that he had been proved to spend his leisure time "in drinking immoderately . . . contracting many bad debts . . . [and] generally...
Having now disposed of all that is questionable in the issue, we may turn to a consideration of what is more typical of Lampy at his best. There are three bits of very pleasing verse: the opening rondeau; "A Ballade of Spring" with an appropriate page decoration, and also "Place...
"There is nothing routine about these productions of familiar operas. Rosing, the director, is full of original ideas, which are carried into execution in a spirited manner by members of the company. The settings of Robert Edmond Jones are a happy blend of impressionism and historical realism. The operas are...