Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the admission of Mexico there were speeches. Three were important. Dino Grandi, Italy's black-fringed young Foreign Minister, stood up and proposed "that all nations should reach an immediate general agreement with a view to arriving at the suspension of the execution of their new armament programs," at...
In the streets the Lisbon citizenry did considerable execution by hurling home made bombs at each other. At nightfall a few survivors of the besieged rebels in the forts managed to escape to the mountains after a savage skirmish in the Lisbon Zoological Gardens.
In 1781 an English law was enacted providing that anyone discovering a theatre open on Sunday might, as a "common informer," sue the proprietor, collect informer's money. The law has never been repealed. When a Miss Millie Orpen discovered this state of affairs, she pounced upon the Sunday...
Divers. When Georgia Coleman executes a swan-dive, front or back jackknife, gainer ("flying dutchman"), back-flip or somersault, she does it more efficiently than any other female in the civilized world. So fluent, so sure are her motions in the air that spectators would not be surprised if, as...
Crash, crash! went two windows in the U. S. consulate at Dresden. Plump fell a bottle on the consulate's floor. While young German Communists hooted and whistled outside, an American clerk picked up the bottle, found a note: ''We protest the execution of eight young Negro...