Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Downhill Skiing" is as concise without being too brief as any book of "How To Do This or That" can be. It is profusely illustrated with beautiful photographs of christianias, stem-turns, snow-plow-turns, and telemarks in their various stages of execution. Otto Lang emphasizes with the same insistence...
This week the Largo Caballero Cabinet claimed to be "resuming the offensive on all fronts." With what they have been able to buy in France and have been sent by Russia, the Spanish Premier at Valencia and Spanish President Manuel Azaña at Barcelona got their Red militia going...
No Echo Here, a clearing in a German pine forest at which a single automobile has stopped. A bandy-legged Nazi with whip dangling from his wrist, canteen and dirk at his belt, is driving a file of political prisoners off to political execution.
He went back to Buffalo, had a gallows built in the jail yard, a canvas stretched overhead to prevent the curious from seeing from neighboring housetops. After taking unusual precautions to have the execution go off swiftly and without a hitch, he took a stand where he could not see...
¶ Yawned as His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, the Laborites led by harassed Major Clement Attlee, found their Party so internally divided that they were unable to attack His Majesty's Government on its policy of covert support of the Spanish White Armies (see p. 35) or on...