Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From South Africa to Fleet Street the Empire was piquantly all of a twitter, last week, over Dawn, the furiously contested cinemastory of the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, Feb. 20). At the nub of controversy jutted the fact that Great Britain has been "muddling through" without a legal...
The title of an issue and the contents within often show a wide divergence. For instance, a Vaudeville Number may deal with various forms of the theatrical and in nine cases out of ten there are violations of the general tone of the issue. It is pleasing to see that...
All that the Court had said, in clumsy, Naval fashion, was that whereas experts had been on hand with good plans and execution, their virtue was not shared by their commander, Rear Admiral Brumby. By good staff work rather than good commanding had that little been done which was done...
Last week rubber bounded-down, down. At the Rubber Exchange there was pandemonium in miniature likeness of the Stock Exchange. Rubber dropped to new low records for the history of the two-year-old exchange. Trading was in tremendous volume, pace of execution was terrific, collars wilted and voices hoarsened...
Ambassador Sthamer quietly documented his protest, last week, by producing the official German account of the execution: ". . . Soldiers brought Fraulein Cavell from a neighboring house. Her eyes were bandaged and a black veil was placed over her head. While being led to the wall she tottered and fell in a...