Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Seventh Heart. This incredibly incomprehensible piece blends music and dubious drama in an expose of what the smart set do at Palm Beach. The most credible thing about it is the rumor that it was produced by the sons of the author, Mrs. Sarah Ellis Hyman, as a tribute...
The atrocity, dignified by the title of "execution," concerned 40 Chinese seized in a raid on the grounds of the Soviet Embassy at Peking (TIME, April 18), in violation of international law. Seized also were various documents which Chang Tso-lin's own interpreters translated as they pleased. These...
A first novel, it is distinctly commendable. The young lady knows whereof she writes, on both sides of the argument, and she writes with the vivacity and warmth of Irish blood reared "down South." None knows better than she the tragedy of good taste ruined by poor execution. She has...
"Apparently the work of destruction was deliberately planned and deliberately carried out. It was a crusade of vengeance for the execution two weeks ago of Catholic plotters in Guadalajara. The Rev. J. M. Vega, a priest well known in Guadalajara, who led the hills-men, said to passengers who spoke...
I have no sympathy with Communism. Its principles and aims are opposed to all my traditions and interests I am not asking a reconsideration of the case because the accused are communists, but because, after having read those parts of the record which are relevant to the salient points raised...