Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dr. Jerger has a taste for Scotch & soda, a flair for anecdote, a willingness to think for himself. He once wrote to the hard-boiled sage of Baltimore, H. L. Mencken, suggesting that condemned criminals be given their choice of execution or submitting themselves as subjects for medical research. Mencken...
...finesse, at his first execution took ten seconds to Deibler's customary three or four. Last week, after six weeks' cogitation, the prisons director pronounced Uncle Léopold's initial effort a complete success, thus making him France's new official high executioner...
Professor Nock concluded, "I've never had the good fortune to meet the new Pope. However, I did see him once from the window of a train. He impressed me as one of the finest looking men I have ever seen; his face is like chiseled bronze. In the execution...
What the Professor overlooks is the Fascist army mobilized at the border, the fact that his Cabinet is riddled with Fascists, that his mistress is a Fascist spy. Though he is warned by his son and a mysterious detective, he tolerantly overlooks their youthful extremism. By the time he catches...
For a useful pal, Ocean-Traveler Al was happy to do services like these. But because Elma Lauer's German maid, Rosa Weber, didn't like what Elma and friends said about Herr Hitler, she reportedly mentioned the duty-free frocks to customs officials. Indicted as smugglers. Burns...