Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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(3 of 3) epithets, threats, and bombs on many a far-flung U. S. legation. The Department warned that extraordinary precautions would be wise (TIME, June 21), after several persons had been killed. Last week the ill-guided demonstrations came to a peak in Paris, as the day of death...
But not until last week were ornithologists particularly conscious of a truly extraordinary feature of stork ethics that is familiar folklore among European peasants. Storks enforce their code of sex morality by vigilant communal action. Ornithologist Annie France-Harar arrived in Berlin from a stork-studying trip to Greece and...
The girl she defeated in the finals was Lilli de Alvarez, graceful, excitable, spectacular. Disregarding the convention which calls upon the virgin daughters of Spain to spend their evenings peeping from a barred window at the cloaked shape of a lover in the doorway opposite, Señorita Alvarez managed...
In 1920 he was rescued from a sentence of execution arising out of his unquenchable revolutionary activities by a popular demonstration without its like in the history of Peru. His official "coronation" at Lima as "Poet of America" followed amid a general public festival. President Leguia, "the bantam Mussolini of...
Herr Luther chances to possess more ability than wit. His enemies succeeded in making it appear that the Cabinet had taken a momentous decision detrimental to the Reich without consulting the Reichstag. Flustered, Herr Luther attempted to evade collision by announcing that he would postpone the execution of the flag...