Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enlightened though many Chinese statesmen are, the Nanking Government got around only last week to issuing a formal decree by which Chinese generals, provincial governors, mayors and all other local authorities were forbidden to inflict on Chinese newspapermen who arouse their ire "summary arrest, torture or execution."
First he dreams the perfect murder. But when he puts it into execution he finds circumstances altered. His hand trembles. Sevilla's servant has not been sent away as Derwent had planned, but is waiting in the pantry for his apprehensive master's signal. Worse, the girl, too...
"Japan can obviously not be sympathetic with Mr. Roosevelt's impending move; for any enhancement of the political power of Russia will hinder the execution of her designs upon the railroads of southern Siberia. In the event, moreover, of a possible Russo-American coalition, she would be caught in a...
Until last year the position of the average commuter was rather unfortunate. Compelled usually to remain around Harvard during most of the day for classes, special library study, or athletics, he found himself with no common, congenial place to meet his fellow commuters and eat with them, to study and...
Mr. James need display no false modesty; he has not failed. A tall striding man in mussed uniform and muddy boots" dominates these four hundred odd pages. Across the gulf of a century he has been transplanted from Tennessee to typemetal. And for the first time he thrives again, bawling...