Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Give a dog an ill name, says the proverb, and he'll soon be hanged. Hang a man for piracy and he'll be known as a bloody pirate to all posterity. Captain Kidd, who ended his career in a gibbet on Execution Dock, has become the legendary...
Lord Bellomont wrote Kidd two weasel letters to lure him ashore, then clapped him in jail, sent him to London. At his trial Kidd was not allowed counsel. As evidence that the prizes he had taken were legitimate, he had kept their French "passes" (commissions); but these vital papers had...
It makes little difference whether the editor writes about mince pies or big politics. "Public opinion is not molded by editors." (Editor White figured that out before the election revelations of 1936.) And an editor with no inconsistencies is either a stuffed-shirt or a liar. In current footnotes he...
The U. S. tourists, few minutes before, had joked gaily at the prospect of seeing a public execution of Chinese drug peddlers, had had to be restrained by police from taking photographs because "China must not be ashamed." But the six executions turned many a tourist pale & sick. With drawn...
His old critic, Columnist David Lawrence, pointed a monitory finger at Section 5299 of the U. S. revised statutes. That law says that whenever "domestic violence, unlawful combinations, or conspiracies in any State" so obstruct the execution of its laws as to ''deprive any portion or class of...