Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Placed wisely, perhaps, in a period of little activity, is the peculiar burden imposed at this time on inventive members of the Junior Class, and their less witty and more unfortunate mates. It is a task that takes little time in execution, it is true, but being a unique and...
"The need for a trial, which could have had but one result, was a thing nobody thought of. . . . The Public was invited to do with the Prisoners as they pleased. In consequence many a helpless prisoner was slashed with penknives and spat upon as the group tramped their sorrowful way...
Punctual, His Excellency General Roberto Cruz, Chief of the Mexico City Police, arrived just before 11 A. M. to superintend the execution. His spurs clinked as he crossed the prison doorsill. Entering the prison garden, he swept with a cold, appraising glance the mounted police (now dismounted) who composed the...
She is shy about her work but seldom subtle in its execution. Daring arrays of color, learned on the Corn wall coast, are typical. Influenced as are almost all artists by modern tendencies, her feet remain resolutely on the ground. She was the first foreign woman chosen to serve on...
Turandot was the opera. The expensive Maria Jeritza starred as the long-nailed Princess lusting for blood. Beautiful, cold as a northern light, she drew suitors from near & far, asked them her three deadly riddles, smacked her lips when they failed and ordered their execution. Came the Unknown Prince (Tenor...